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

Corbyn Z (2011) Science education: Research on the reservation. Nature 471:25–26

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerstner W, Naud R (2009) Neuroscience. How good are neuron models? Science 326:379–380

A journal article with 3 authors

Carslaw KS, Harrison RG, Kirkby J (2002) Cosmic rays, clouds, and climate. Science 298:1732–1737

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Osama A, Najam A, Kassim-Lakha S, et al (2009) Pakistan’s reform experiment. Nature 461:38–39

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghiani G, Laporte G, Musmanno R (2005) Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Koenig HG (2014) Health and Well-Being in Islamic Societies: Background, Research, and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Scholtes-Spang K, Demant H, Benz M (2016) Sleep Disorders of Early Childhood. In: Cierpka M (ed) Regulatory Disorders in Infants: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 67–88

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 (2015) View the Known Universe. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/view-known-universe/. 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 (2014) Explosives Detection Canines: TSA Has Taken Steps to Analyze Canine Team Data and Assess the Effectiveness of Passenger Screening Canines. 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

Gary M (2017) Home Range and Habitat Use of Juvenile Green Turtles in a Shallow Tidal Environment. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Hollander S (2000) Capriati Moves On, Calmly. New York Times D4

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