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

J.M. Hutson, Chemistry Ultracold chemistry, Science 327 (5967) (2010) 788–789.

A journal article with 2 authors

N. Fujii and A.M. Graybiel, Representation of action sequence boundaries by macaque prefrontal cortical neurons, Science 301 (5637) (2003) 1246–1249.

A journal article with 3 authors

T. Sakuno, K. Tada, and Y. Watanabe, Kinetochore geometry defined by cohesion within the centromere, Nature 458 (7240) (2009) 852–858.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Y. Liu et al., On-line monitoring of methane in sewer air, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6637.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

M. Mory, Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, (2013).

An edited book

C.F. Hutchinson, The Future of Arid Lands — Revisited: A Review of 50 Years of Drylands Research, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, (2008).

A chapter in an edited book

R. Billinton et al., Adequacy Assessment of Wind-Integrated Composite Generation and Transmission Systems, in G. Anders, A. Vaccaro (Eds.), Innovations in Power Systems Reliability, Springer, London, (2011): pp. 141–167.

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

J. O`Callaghan, Amputee Gamer Gets Bionic Arm That Has Its Own Drone, 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, NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale Projects [Reissued on March 26, 2015], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2015).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

D. Mihalcin, A comparison of the Children’s Functional Assessment Rating Scale and the Child Behavior Checklist used in a wraparound program, Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

G. Vecsey, A Summer With Uncle Casey In the Town He Owned, New York Times (2011) SP2.

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

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