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

R. Schneider, Climate Science: Sea Levels from Ancient Seashells, Nature, 2014, 508(7497), p 465–466.

A journal article with 2 authors

T.J. Crowley and W.T. Hyde, Transient Nature of Late Pleistocene Climate Variability, Nature, 2008, 456(7219), p 226–230.

A journal article with 3 authors

C. Agulhon, T.A. Fiacco, and K.D. McCarthy, Hippocampal Short- and Long-Term Plasticity Are Not Modulated by Astrocyte Ca2+ Signaling, Science, 2010, 327(5970), p 1250–1254.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

T. Maviel, T.P. Durkin, F. Menzaghi, and B. Bontempi, Sites of Neocortical Reorganization Critical for Remote Spatial Memory, Science, 2004, 305(5680), p 96–99.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

T.F. DeRosa, “Advances in Polymer Chemistry and Methods Reported in Recent US Patents,” (Hoboken, NJ), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.

An edited book

S.N. Sivanandam, “Introduction to Genetic Algorithms,” S.N. Deepa, Ed., (Berlin, Heidelberg), Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

J. Grace, The Amazon Carbon Balance: An Evaluation of Methods and Results, Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin, L. Nagy, B.R. Forsberg, and P. Artaxo, Eds., (Berlin, Heidelberg), Springer, 2016, p 79–100.

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

E. Andrew, “This Robot Is Going to 3D-Print a Steel Bridge,” IFLScience, IFLScience, 2015.

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, “Procedures for Updating Arbitrator Disclosure Information,” (Washington, DC), U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

D.L. Yendes, “Remnants of Life,” (Long Beach, CA), California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

B. Rothenberg, “Bryans Defeated for Title in ‘Maybe the Last Year,’” New York Times, 2017, p SP5.

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