How to format your references using the Journal of Sound and Vibration citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sound and Vibration. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

P. Smaglik, Grappling for grants, Nature. 419 (2002) 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Shendure, J.M. Akey, The origins, determinants, and consequences of human mutations, Science. 349 (2015) 1478–1483.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Zhao, S. Murray, J.J. Lipuma, Modeling the impact of antibiotic exposure on human microbiota, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4345.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Li, J.P.J. Yu, J.S. Brunzelle, G.N. Moll, W.A. van der Donk, S.K. Nair, Structure and mechanism of the lantibiotic cyclase involved in nisin biosynthesis, Science. 311 (2006) 1464–1467.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V.A. Greiman, Megaproject Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M. Essig, M. Hülsmann, E.-M. Kern, S. Klein-Schmeink, eds., Supply Chain Safety Management: Security and Robustness in Logistics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.Y. Leclerc, T. Foken, Model Validation, in: T. Foken (Ed.), Footprints in Micrometeorology and Ecology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 145–158.

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 Sound and Vibration.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Rare Species Of Deep-Diving Whale Discovered, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-species-deep-diving-whale-discovered/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Airline Competition: Fares and Concentration at Small-City Airports, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.K. Dixon, Tracing anthropogenic wastes: Detection of fluorescent optical brighteners in a gradient of natural organic matter fluorescence, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2009.

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

[1]

T. Cowen, Affordable, but Not That Egalitarian, New York Times. (2015) BU6.

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 Sound and Vibration
Abbreviation	J. Sound Vib.
ISSN (print)	0022-460X
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Acoustics and Ultrasonics Condensed Matter Physics