How to format your references using the Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics citation style

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

Silk, J. B. 2007. “Social components of fitness in primate groups.” Science, 317 (5843): 1347–1351.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holland, G., and C. J. Ballentine. 2006. “Seawater subduction controls the heavy noble gas composition of the mantle.” Nature, 441 (7090): 186–191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sahu, G., S. Sukumaran, and A. K. Bera. 2014. “Pannexins form gap junctions with electrophysiological and pharmacological properties distinct from connexins.” Sci. Rep., 4: 4955.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guo, C. X., J. Xie, B. Wang, X. Zheng, H. B. Yang, and C. M. Li. 2013. “A new class of fluorescent-dots: long luminescent lifetime bio-dots self-assembled from DNA at low temperatures.” Sci. Rep., 3: 2957.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gonzalez, R., F. Qi, and B. Huang. 2016. Process Control System Fault Diagnosis: A Bayesian Approach. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Stanko, E. A. 2016. Police Use of Research Evidence: Recommendations for Improvement. SpringerBriefs in Criminology, (P. Dawson, ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Zipser, M. C., and R. Dummer. 2011. “Epidemiology of Histocytoses.” Skin Cancer - A World-Wide Perspective, R. Dummer, M. R. Pittelkow, K. Iwatsuki, A. Green, and N. M. Elwan, eds., 33–34. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Nanomechanics and Micromechanics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “New Type Of Chemical Bond Confirmed.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/new-chemical-bond-described-over-30-years-after-it-was-proposed/.

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. 1993. Airline Competition: Options For Addressing Financial and Competition Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Murdock, M. 2010. “Memoir as contemporary myth.” Doctoral dissertation. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Saslow, L. 2008. “Filling the Child Care Breach.” New York Times, November 2, 2008.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Silk 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Holland and Ballentine 2006; Silk 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Holland and Ballentine 2006)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics
Abbreviation	J. Nanomech. Micromech.
ISSN (print)	2153-5434
ISSN (online)	2153-5477
Scope	Mechanical Engineering