How to format your references using the Journal of Terramechanics citation style

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

Toggweiler, J.R., 2009. Climate change. Shifting westerlies. Science 323, 1434–1435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reinhart, B.J., Bartel, D.P., 2002. Small RNAs correspond to centromere heterochromatic repeats. Science 297, 1831.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kutnjak, Z., Petzelt, J., Blinc, R., 2006. The giant electromechanical response in ferroelectric relaxors as a critical phenomenon. Nature 441, 956–959.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Koller, J., Baumer, U., Kaup, Y., Schmid, M., Weser, U., 2003. Ancient materials: analysis of a pharaonic embalming tar. Nature 425, 784.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

E. Sutherland, P., 2014. Principles of Electrical Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Baughman, A.K., Gao, J., Pan, J.-Y., Petrushin, V.A. (Eds.), 2015. Multimedia Data Mining and Analytics: Disruptive Innovation. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Prasad, G.A., Wang, K.K., 2006. Endoscopic Therapy for Early Esophageal Cancer and Premalignant Lesions in Barrett’s Esophagus, in: Faigel, D.O., Kochman, M.L. (Eds.), Endoscopic Oncology: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Cancer Management. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 43–51.

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 Terramechanics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Assembly Of The World’s Largest Radio Telescope Has Begun! [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1994. NASA Procurement: Contract and Management Improvements at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (No. NSIAD-95-40). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wright, C., 2010. A quantitative study of retirement knowledge among Spring 2009 Arizona high school graduates (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

McKINLEY, J., 2017. New York State to Cover Tuition in Cuomo Plan. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Toggweiler, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Reinhart and Bartel, 2002; Toggweiler, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Reinhart and Bartel, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Koller et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Terramechanics
Abbreviation	J. Terramech.
ISSN (print)	0022-4898
Scope	Mechanical Engineering