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

Radick, G., 2015. HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Beyond the “Mendel-Fisher controversy.” Science 350, 159–160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Efremov, R.G., Sazanov, L.A., 2011. Structure of the membrane domain of respiratory complex I. Nature 476, 414–420.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lyko, F., Ramsahoye, B.H., Jaenisch, R., 2000. DNA methylation in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 408, 538–540.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vanhaereny, M., d’Errico, F., Stringer, C., James, S.L., Todd, J.A., Mienis, H.K., 2006. Middle Paleolithic shell beads in Israel and Algeria. Science 312, 1785–1788.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korst, J., Pronk, V., 2006. Multimedia Storage and Retrieval. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bailey, D.H., Bauschke, H.H., Borwein, P., Garvan, F., Théra, M., Vanderwerff, J.D., Wolkowicz, H. (Eds.), 2013. Computational and Analytical Mathematics: In Honor of Jonathan Borwein’s 60th Birthday, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Berkowitz, S., 2006. Facial and Palatal Growth, in: Berkowitz, S. (Ed.), Cleft Lip and Palate. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 23–34.

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. This Galactic Nursery Is A Window To The Past [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, 1978. Computer Misuse by the Sigma Corporation, a NASA Contractor (No. PSAD-78-148). 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

Krauss, W.F., 2010. The role of a middle management team during a directed restructuring: A case study of a government agency using Stones’ strong structuration (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Stuart, C., Monkovic, T., Bretherton, G., 2010. 1,000 Yards Later, It’s O.K. to Ask, Who Is That Guy? New York Times B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Radick, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Efremov and Sazanov, 2011; Radick, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Efremov and Sazanov, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Vanhaereny et al., 2006)

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