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

Lammert, E. 2008. “Developmental biology. Brain Wnts for blood vessels.” Science, 322 (5905): 1195–1196.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kingston, T., and S. J. Rossiter. 2004. “Harmonic-hopping in Wallacea’s bats.” Nature, 429 (6992): 654–657.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tamisiea, M. E., J. X. Mitrovica, and J. L. Davis. 2007. “GRACE gravity data constrain ancient ice geometries and continental dynamics over Laurentia.” Science, 316 (5826): 881–883.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chang, C., Z. Guo, N. Shen, B. He, W. Yao, H. Zhu, and J. Zhao. 2014. “Dynamics of inflammation resolution and symptom recovery during AECOPD treatment.” Sci. Rep., 4: 5516.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benitez, M., J. Davidson, and L. Flaxman. 2009. Small Schools, Big Ideas. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Alpay, D., and V. Vinnikov (Eds.). 2005. Operator Theory, Systems Theory and Scattering Theory: Multidimensional Generalizations. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Adkins, W. A., and M. G. Davidson. 2012. “Second Order Linear Differential Equations.” Ordinary Differential Equations, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, M. G. Davidson, ed., 331–381. New York, NY: Springer.

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

Evans, K. 2017. “Earth Has A Brand-New Continent Called Zealandia, And It’s Been Hiding In Plain Sight For Ages.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earth-has-a-brandnew-continent-called-zealandia-and-its-been-hiding-in-plain-sight-for-ages/.

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. 1998. Charter Schools: Federal Funding Available but Barriers Exist. 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

Hardison, A. 2017. “Achieving Literacy Excellence through Identifying and Utilizing High Yield Strategies.” Doctoral dissertation. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Kenigsberg, B. 2017. “By the Time It Gets Dark.” New York Times, April 13, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lammert 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Kingston and Rossiter 2004; Lammert 2008).

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

Two authors: (Kingston and Rossiter 2004)
Three or more authors: (Chang et al. 2014)

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