How to format your references using the Journal of Mechanical Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mechanical Design. 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

[1]

Chyba, C. F., 2005, “Atmospheric Science. Rethinking Earth’s Early Atmosphere,” Science, 308(5724), pp. 962–963.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Williams, B. G., and Dye, C., 2003, “Antiretroviral Drugs for Tuberculosis Control in the Era of HIV/AIDS,” Science, 301(5639), pp. 1535–1537.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Arp, G., Reimer, A., and Reitner, J., 2001, “Photosynthesis-Induced Biofilm Calcification and Calcium Concentrations in Phanerozoic Oceans,” Science, 292(5522), pp. 1701–1704.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kosfeld, M., Heinrichs, M., Zak, P. J., Fischbacher, U., and Fehr, E., 2005, “Oxytocin Increases Trust in Humans,” Nature, 435(7042), pp. 673–676.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Paolella, M. S., 2006, Fundamental Probability, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Bonate, P. L., and Howard, D. R., eds., 2016, Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development: Problems and Challenges in Oncology, Volume 4, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Häkkänen, H., 2008, “A Study of Offense Patterns and Psychopathological Characteristics Among Recidivistic Finnish Homicide Offenders,” Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes, R.N. Kocsis, ed., Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 51–62.

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 Mechanical Design.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti, C., 2017, “New Footage Reveals Deadly Chimpanzee Battles,” IFLScience.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 1976, Career Education: Status and Needed Improvements, MWD-76-81, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Quick, T. D., 2012, “Faith-Based Charter School Success at Education Ground Zero,” Doctoral dissertation, 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

[1]

Vecsey, G., 2010, “For Knicks’ Lee, a Grandfather, Mentor and Pal,” New York Times, p. B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mechanical Design
Abbreviation	J. Mech. Des. N. Y.
ISSN (print)	1050-0472
ISSN (online)	1528-9001
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Computer Science Applications Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials