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

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

P. Smaglik, How to Succeed in Business, Nature, 2004, 428(6983), p 675.

A journal article with 2 authors

C.F. McKee and J.C. Tan, Massive Star Formation in 100,000 Years from Turbulent and Pressurized Molecular Clouds, Nature, 2002, 416(6876), p 59–61.

A journal article with 3 authors

H. Xin, Q. Liu, and B. Li, Non-Contact Fiber-Optical Trapping of Motile Bacteria: Dynamics Observation and Energy Estimation, Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p 6576.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

S.V. Eremeev, I.A. Nechaev, P.M. Echenique, and E.V. Chulkov, Spin-Helical Dirac States in Graphene Induced by Polar-Substrate Surfaces with Giant Spin-Orbit Interaction: A New Platform for Spintronics, Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p 6900.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

F. Landragin, “Man-Machine Dialogue,” (Hoboken, NJ USA), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Z. Cai and S. Liu, Eds., “Applications of MALDI-TOF Spectroscopy,” (Berlin, Heidelberg), Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

W. Fikentscher, P. Hacker, and R. Podszun, Conclusion: The Concept of FairEconomy, FairEconomy: Crises, Culture, Competition and the Role of Law, P. Hacker and R. Podszun, Eds., (Berlin, Heidelberg), Springer, 2013, p 149–150.

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 Materials Engineering and Performance.

Blog post

T. Hale, “Underwater Explosions In Slow-Motion Look Absolutely Awesome,” IFLScience, IFLScience, 2016, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/underwater-explosions-in-slow-motion-look-absolutely-awesome/. Accessed 30 October 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, “Need To Improve Administration of Fees and Charges of Regulatory Agencies,” (Washington, DC), U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

E.A. Johnson, “Factors Associated with Post-Stroke Depressive Symptoms and Quality of Life,” (Bloomington, IN), Indiana University, 2008.

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

M. Twohey, J.C. McKINLEY Jr., A.L. Baker, and W.K. Rashbaum, “For Mogul, Brush With Police, Then No Charges,” New York Times, 2017, p A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
Abbreviation	J. Mater. Eng. Perform.
ISSN (print)	1059-9495
ISSN (online)	1544-1024
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science