How to format your references using the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. 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

Doncaster CP (2006) Comment on “On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects” III. Science 311:1100; author reply 1100

A journal article with 2 authors

Hines PJ, Zahn LM (2009) What’s bugging plants? Plant-microbe interactions. Introduction. Science 324:741

A journal article with 3 authors

Vergoz V, Schreurs HA, Mercer AR (2007) Queen pheromone blocks aversive learning in young worker bees. Science 317:384–386

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kamei M, Saunders WB, Bayless KJ, et al (2006) Endothelial tubes assemble from intracellular vacuoles in vivo. Nature 442:453–456

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis TG (2010) Java® and Mac OS® X. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Chen X (michael) (2015) Stochastic Evolutions of Dynamic Traffic Flow: Modeling and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wang X, Xie Z, Guan X (2011) Risk Assessment Based on the Life Cycle of Virtual Enterprise. In: Dai M (ed) Innovative Computing and Information: International Conference, ICCIC 2011, Wuhan, China, September 17-18, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 21–28

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 the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) Five Things Nurses Are Really Good At – And Sometimes Better Than Doctors. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2004) Highway Safety: Federal and State Efforts to Address Rural Road Safety Challenges. 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

Holloway LR (2013) Synthesis and investigation of novel dinitrosyl-Iron complexes of chelated Bis-phosphine ligands: Potential nitric oxide delivery compounds. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hodgman J (2017) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM24

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 the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1678-5878
ISSN (online)	1806-3691
Scope	Mechanical Engineering