How to format your references using the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 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

Maiani, L., 2010. Obituary: Nicola Cabibbo (1935-2010). Nature 467, 284.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMichael, A.J., Jones, E.Y., 2010. Genetics. First-class control of HIV-1. Science 330, 1488–1490.

A journal article with 3 authors

Banerjee, A., Santos, W.L., Verdine, G.L., 2006. Structure of a DNA glycosylase searching for lesions. Science 311, 1153–1157.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rosales-Guzmán, C., Hermosa, N., Belmonte, A., Torres, J.P., 2013. Experimental detection of transverse particle movement with structured light. Sci. Rep. 3, 2815.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chernick, M.R., 2011. The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

P. Dicks, A., 2015. Green Chemistry Metrics: A Guide to Determining and Evaluating Process Greenness, SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Rudolf, D., Mould, D., 2010. An Interactive Fluid Model of Jellyfish for Animation, in: Ranchordas, A., Pereira, J.M., Araújo, H.J., Tavares, J.M.R.S. (Eds.), Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications: International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2009, Lisboa, Portugal, February 5-8, 2009. Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 59–72.

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 Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Bizarre Newly Discovered “Platypus” Dinosaur Baffles Scientists [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, 1992. Tax Systems Modernization: IRS Award to MITRE Corporation Violated the Competition in Contracting Act (No. IMTEC-92-28). 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

Catalini, M., 2012. Intrinsic rewards increase job performance within an organization (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Brantley, B., 2017. Musical Theater Loses A Versatile Voice. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maiani, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Maiani, 2010; McMichael and Jones, 2010).

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

Two authors: (McMichael and Jones, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Rosales-Guzmán et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
Abbreviation	J. Mech. Behav. Biomed. Mater.
ISSN (print)	1751-6161
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Biomaterials