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

Bass, J., 2012. Circadian topology of metabolism. Nature 491, 348–356.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thorogood, R., Davies, N.B., 2012. Cuckoos combat socially transmitted defenses of reed warbler hosts with a plumage polymorphism. Science 337, 578–580.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murray, B., Huntress, W.T., Jr, Friedman, L.D., 2001. Mars outposts: a planetary society approach to exploration. Nature 412, 254–255.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fang, Z., Nagaosa, N., Takahashi, K.S., Asamitsu, A., Mathieu, R., Ogasawara, T., Yamada, H., Kawasaki, M., Tokura, Y., Terakura, K., 2003. The anomalous Hall effect and magnetic monopoles in momentum space. Science 302, 92–95.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuzmeski, M., 2009. The Connectors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Fan, X.J., Suhir, E. (Eds.), 2010. Moisture Sensitivity of Plastic Packages of IC Devices, Micro- and Opto-Electronic Materials, Structures, and Systems. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Clark, P.E., Rilee, M.L., 2010. Longwave Region: Mid to Thermal Infrared, Microwave, and Radio, in: Rilee, M.L. (Ed.), Remote Sensing Tools for Exploration: Observing and Interpreting the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 178–252.

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. Should You Get Solar Panels? Ask Google [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/should-you-get-solar-panels-ask-google/ (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. Lost in Space? (No. 146027). 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

Wang, N., 2015. Computational Studies on Biomolecular Diffusion and Electrostatics (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Myers, S.L., 2013. Challenger in Race for Moscow Mayor Says He Can Force a Runoff. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bass, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bass, 2012; Thorogood and Davies, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Thorogood and Davies, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Fang et al., 2003)

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