How to format your references using the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 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

Rauchway, E., 2009. Recession Watch: Work for the greater good. Nature 457, 959–960.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eaton, D.W., Frederiksen, A., 2007. Seismic evidence for convection-driven motion of the North American plate. Nature 446, 428–431.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schnupp, J.W., Mrsic-Flogel, T.D., King, A.J., 2001. Linear processing of spatial cues in primary auditory cortex. Nature 414, 200–204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hsu, C.-W., Zhao, J., Huang, R., Hsieh, J.-H., Hamm, J., Chang, X., Houck, K., Xia, M., 2014. Quantitative high-throughput profiling of environmental chemicals and drugs that modulate farnesoid X receptor. Sci. Rep. 4, 6437.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mauthe, A., Thomas, P., 2005. Professional Content Management Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Christakos, G., 2005. Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Friedman, Y., Scarr, T., 2005. The algebraic structure of homogeneous balls, in: Scarr, T. (Ed.), Physical Applications of Homogeneous Balls. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, pp. 195–236.

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 Mechanics and Physics of Solids.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Greenland Glacier Just Shed A Chunk Of Ice The Size Of Manhattan [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, 2007. Financial Market Preparedness: Significant Progress Has Been Made, but Pandemic Planning and Other Challenges Remain (No. GAO-07-399). 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

Immaneni, R.N., 2015. An efficient approach to machine learning based text classification through distributed computing (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Park, L.S., 2011. No Safe Place. New York Times BR16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rauchway, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Eaton and Frederiksen, 2007; Rauchway, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Eaton and Frederiksen, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hsu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
Abbreviation	J. Mech. Phys. Solids
ISSN (print)	0022-5096
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Condensed Matter Physics