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

Mazzarello, P., 2001. Lombroso and Tolstoy. Nature 409, 983.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, R., Wang, Y., 2013. Neural mechanism for sensing fast motion in dim light. Sci. Rep. 3, 3159.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rhode, S.C., Pawlowski, M., Tollrian, R., 2001. The impact of ultraviolet radiation on the vertical distribution of zooplankton of the genus Daphnia. Nature 412, 69–72.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Smolyaninova, V.N., Yost, B., Lahneman, D., Narimanov, E.E., Smolyaninov, I.I., 2014. Self-assembled tunable photonic hyper-crystals. Sci. Rep. 4, 5706.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lane, C., 2011. Magnolia. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Dehne, F., Solis-Oba, R., Sack, J.-R. (Eds.), 2013. Algorithms and Data Structures: 13th International Symposium, WADS 2013, London, ON, Canada, August 12-14, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Madea, B., Noeker, M., Franke, I., 2011. Child abuse — some aspects for neurosurgeons, in: Pickard, J.D., Akalan, N., Benes, V., Rocco, C.D., Dolenc, V.V., Antunes, J.L., Schramm, J., Sindou, M. (Eds.), Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery, Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery. Springer, Vienna, pp. 79–135.

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

Fang, J., 2015. New Species Of Catfish Named “Greedo” After Star Wars Bounty Hunter [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/catfish-named-after-star-wars-bounty-hunter/ (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, 1993. NASA Property: Improving Management of Government Equipment Provided to Contractors (No. NSIAD-93-191). 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

Paoletti, M.S., 2010. Experimental characterization of turbulent superfluid helium (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Feeney, K., 2007. Storefront Takeout, From Scratch. New York Times NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mazzarello, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Li and Wang, 2013; Mazzarello, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Li and Wang, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Smolyaninova et al., 2014)

About the journal

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