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

Hede, K. 2013. “Emergency medicine: The need for speed.” Nature, 503 (7475): S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dandekar, P., and M. F. Doherty. 2014. “Materials science. Imaging crystallization.” Science, 344 (6185): 705–706.

A journal article with 3 authors

Körtner, G., R. M. Brigham, and F. Geiser. 2000. “Winter torpor in a large bird.” Nature, 407 (6802): 318.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiao, Y., T. Zhang, C. Liu, D. G. Heckel, X. Li, B. E. Tabashnik, and K. Wu. 2014. “Mis-splicing of the ABCC2 gene linked with Bt toxin resistance in Helicoverpa armigera.” Sci. Rep., 4: 6184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor, R. 2006. Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lemmon, D. R. 2005. Developing Statistical Software in Fortran 95. Statistics and Computing, (J. L. Schafer, ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fuller, C. E., S. Narendra, and I. Tolicica. 2010. “Ependymal Tumors.” Atlas of Pediatric Brain Tumors, A. M. Adesina, T. Tihan, C. E. Fuller, and T. Y. Poussaint, eds., 47–59. New York, NY: 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. 2014. “This Plane Will Take You Anywhere In The World In 4 Hours.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/plane-will-take-you-anywhere-world-4-hours/.

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. 2000. Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities Still Exist in the Aviation Security System. 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

Hess, J. P. 2012. “Exploring the Challenges of Training and Developing Millennials in the Business Environment.” Doctoral dissertation. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Schwartz, J. 2016. “A Climate Change Evangelist.” New York Times, October 11, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hede 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Dandekar and Doherty 2014; Hede 2013).

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

Two authors: (Dandekar and Doherty 2014)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al. 2014)

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