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

G.A. FitzGerald, BIOMEDICINE. Bringing PGE₂ in from the Cold, Science, 2015, 348(6240), p 1208–1209.

A journal article with 2 authors

R. Barkana and A. Loeb, Spectral Signature of Cosmological Infall of Gas around the First Quasars, Nature, 2003, 421(6921), p 341–343.

A journal article with 3 authors

X.-Q. Sun, H.-W. Shen, and X.-Q. Cheng, Trading Network Predicts Stock Price, Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p 3711.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

X.D. Cui, A. Primak, X. Zarate, J. Tomfohr, O.F. Sankey, A.L. Moore, T.A. Moore, D. Gust, G. Harris, and S.M. Lindsay, Reproducible Measurement of Single-Molecule Conductivity, Science, 2001, 294(5542), p 571–574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. Darbyshire and D. Hampton, “Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using Excel and VBA,” (Chichester, West Sussex, UK), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2012.

An edited book

R. Gorenflo, “Mittag-Leffler Functions, Related Topics and Applications: Theory and Applications,” A.A. Kilbas, F. Mainardi, and S.V. Rogosin, Eds., (Berlin, Heidelberg), Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

W. Bender and H.H. Böger, A Short History of the Extruder in Ceramics, Extrusion in Ceramics, F. Händle, Ed., (Berlin, Heidelberg), Springer, 2007, p 85–128.

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

D. Andrew, “Genes Are Not Destiny: Environment And Education Still Matter When It Comes To Intelligence,” IFLScience, IFLScience, 2016, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/genes-are-not-destiny-environment-and-education-still-matter-when-it-comes-to-intelligence/. 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, “NSF Experiment in Research Grant Administration Promising,” (Washington, DC), U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

J.L. Wright, “Shade Tolerance and Physiological Response to Light Regime of the Invasive Species Lonicera Maackii (Amur Honeysuckle),” (Edwardsville, IL), Southern Illinois University, 2015.

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

C. Kelly, “Dallas Has Its Own Indie Film Scene, and a Festival,” New York Times, 2012, p A25B.

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