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. Makous, Comment on “Emergence of novel color vision in mice engineered to express a human cone photopigment,” Science 318 (5848) (2007) 196; author reply 196.

A journal article with 2 authors

A.A. Alekseyenko and M.I. Kuroda, Molecular biology Filling gaps in genome organization, Science 303 (5661) (2004) 1148–1149.

A journal article with 3 authors

E.K. Vogel, A.W. McCollough, and M.G. Machizawa, Neural measures reveal individual differences in controlling access to working memory, Nature 438 (7067) (2005) 500–503.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

L. Wang et al., Yb/Er co-doped phosphate all-solid single-mode photonic crystal fiber, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6139.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

G. Grant, Ecosystem Services Come to Town, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK, (2012).

An edited book

E. Soriano and J. Marco-Contelles, eds., Computational Mechanisms of Au and Pt Catalyzed Reactions, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, (2011).

A chapter in an edited book

T. Dyl, The Numerical Analysis of Burnishing Process of Hollow Steel Tubes, in J. Awrejcewicz, K.J. Kaliński, R. Szewczyk, M. Kaliczyńska (Eds.), Mechatronics: Ideas, Challenges, Solutions and Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham, (2016): pp. 65–75.

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

D. Andrew, Space Submarines Will Allow Us To Explore The Seas Of Icy Moons, 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, Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safety’s Efforts to Strengthen Its Enforcement Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2004).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

M.G. Makovec, A study of the factors predicting attrition and contributing to the attrition rate of high school teachers in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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. Gordon, Blessed Among Women, New York Times (2012) BR14.

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