How to format your references using the Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Mouillet, D., 2004, “Astronomy. Nearby Planetary Disks,” Science, 303(5666), pp. 1982–1983.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Carlsson, F., and Brown, E. J., 2009, “Cell Biology. The Art of Making an Exit,” Science, 323(5922), pp. 1678–1679.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Perrin, R. J., Fagan, A. M., and Holtzman, D. M., 2009, “Multimodal Techniques for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Alzheimer’s Disease,” Nature, 461(7266), pp. 916–922.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Wilk, T., Webster, S. C., Kuhn, A., and Rempe, G., 2007, “Single-Atom Single-Photon Quantum Interface,” Science, 317(5837), pp. 488–490.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Gordon, J., 2009, Training Camp, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Amusia, M. Y., 2015, Theory of Heavy-Fermion Compounds: Theory of Strongly Correlated Fermi-Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Janssen, P. A. E. M., 2016, “Hamiltonian Description of Ocean Waves and Freak Waves,” Rogue and Shock Waves in Nonlinear Dispersive Media, M. Onorato, S. Resitori, and F. Baronio, eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 117–157.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti, A., 2016, “Dark Matter May Have Punched Huge Holes In A Stream Of Stars,” IFLScience [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/dark-matter-may-have-punched-huge-holes-in-a-stream-of-stars/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-2018].

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 1995, Scenic Byways: States’ Use of Geometric Design Standards, RCED-95-243, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Williams, C., 2017, “Tattooing and the Generalized Other,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Koblin, J., 2017, “How a Network Missed Out On the Weinstein Exposé,” New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Eng. Mater. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0094-4289
ISSN (online)	1528-8889
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics