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

Koen, D. 2004. “Nuts and bolts. Seeking feedback.” Nature, 430 (6999): 592.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, M., and X. Yan. 2005. “Comment on ‘Grain boundary-mediated plasticity in nanocrystalline nickel.’” Science, 308 (5720): 356; author reply 356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Soroceanu, L., A. Akhavan, and C. S. Cobbs. 2008. “Platelet-derived growth factor-alpha receptor activation is required for human cytomegalovirus infection.” Nature, 455 (7211): 391–395.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Moreno, P. I., G. L. Jacobson Jr, T. V. Lowell, and G. H. Denton. 2001. “Interhemispheric climate links revealed by late-glacial cooling episode in southern Chile.” Nature, 409 (6822): 804–808.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Geotechnical Society. 2013. Taschenbuch für den Tunnelbau 2014. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Ranci, C., and E. Pavolini (Eds.). 2013. Reforms in Long-Term Care Policies in Europe: Investigating Institutional Change and Social Impacts. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown, A., M. Yampolskiy, J. Gatlin, and T. Andel. 2016. “Legal Aspects of Protecting Intellectual Property in Additive Manufacturing.” Critical Infrastructure Protection X: 10th IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference, ICCIP 2016, Arlington, VA, USA, March 14-16, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, M. Rice and S. Shenoi, eds., 63–79. 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

Andrews, R. 2016. “Watch A River Full Of Methane Get Set On Fire.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 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

Government Accountability Office. 1977. The Impact Aid Program. 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

Gros, T. R. 2009. “A templated agarose scaffold for axon guidance in the central and peripheral nervous system.” Doctoral dissertation. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Sisario, B. 2016. “Amazon Pairs Echo With Music Streaming Service.” New York Times, October 12, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Yan 2005; Koen 2004).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Yan 2005)
Three or more authors: (Moreno et al. 2001)

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