How to format your references using the Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

W.W. Parson, Biophysics Long live electronic coherence!, Science 316 (5830) (2007) 1438–1439.

A journal article with 2 authors

C. Jiang and S.G. Srinivasan, Unexpected strain-stiffening in crystalline solids, Nature 496 (7445) (2013) 339–342.

A journal article with 3 authors

E. Cappellini, M.J. Collins, and M.T.P. Gilbert, Biochemistry Unlocking ancient protein palimpsests, Science 343 (6177) (2014) 1320–1322.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

J. Dekker et al., Capturing chromosome conformation, Science 295 (5558) (2002) 1306–1311.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

L.A. Belfiore, Transport Phenomena for Chemical Reactor Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, (2003).

An edited book

N. Cioffi and M. Rai, eds., Nano-Antimicrobials: Progress and Prospects, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, (2012).

A chapter in an edited book

A. Redaelli et al., Multiscale modeling of diffusion phenomena in polymers, in M.J. Buehler, R. Ballarini (Eds.), Materiomics: Multiscale Mechanics of Biological Materials and Structures, Springer, Vienna, (2013): pp. 71–86.

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

R. Andrews, These Freshly Erupted Hawaiian Lava Flows Are Nothing Short Of Spectacular, IFLScience (2016).

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, K-12 Education: Better Use of Information Could Help Agencies Identify Disparities and Address Racial Discrimination, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2016).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

E.M. Klepper, Andragogy and Workplace Relationships: A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring Employees’ Perceptions of Their Relationships with Their Supervisors, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2017.

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

K. Crow, You Can Take the A Train, but People Prefer to Wear the F, New York Times (2000) 1410.

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 Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Mech. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1738-494X
ISSN (online)	1976-3824
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials