How to format your references using the Journal of Engineering Mechanics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 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

Fuyuno, I. 2006. “Stuck in the middle.” Nature, 442 (7100): 237.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bada, J. L., and A. Lazcano. 2003. “Perceptions of science. Prebiotic soup--revisiting the Miller experiment.” Science, 300 (5620): 745–746.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hermanson, O., K. Jepsen, and M. G. Rosenfeld. 2002. “N-CoR controls differentiation of neural stem cells into astrocytes.” Nature, 419 (6910): 934–939.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bénazet, J.-D., M. Bischofberger, E. Tiecke, A. Gonçalves, J. F. Martin, A. Zuniga, F. Naef, and R. Zeller. 2009. “A self-regulatory system of interlinked signaling feedback loops controls mouse limb patterning.” Science, 323 (5917): 1050–1053.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCormick, K., and J. Salcedo. 2017. SPSS reg Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Escobar, S. (Ed.). 2014. Rewriting Logic and Its Applications: 10th International Workshop, WRLA 2014, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS, Grenoble, France, April 5-6, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Crowder, J. A., J. N. Carbone, and R. Demijohn. 2016. “Systems Engineering Tools and Practices.” Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering: Architecting the Design Process, J. N. Carbone and R. Demijohn, eds., 89–103. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Mechanics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. “Three 16 Year Old Girls Win Top Prize At Google Science Fair For Agricultural Research.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/google-science-fair-winners-announced/.

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

Government Accountability Office. 2011. Rail Transit: FTA Programs Are Helping Address Transit Agencies’ Safety Challenges, but Improved Performance Goals and Measures Could Better Focus Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nadeau, E. M. 2017. “Baby Boomer Generation’s Knowledge of Alzheimer’s Disease.” Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Oestreich, J. R. 2017. “A Man on a Mission, and Then Another.” New York Times, January 20, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bada and Lazcano 2003; Fuyuno 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bada and Lazcano 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bénazet et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Abbreviation	J. Eng. Mech.
ISSN (print)	0733-9399
ISSN (online)	1943-7889
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials