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

Levine, A.G., 2008. Science careers. Finance’s quant(um) mechanics. Science 322, 1264–1265.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bishopp, A., Bennett, M.J., 2015. Plant biology: Seeing the wood and the trees. Nature 517, 558–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Booth, L.N., Tuch, B.B., Johnson, A.D., 2010. Intercalation of a new tier of transcription regulation into an ancient circuit. Nature 468, 959–963.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Y., Tan, Y.-W., Stormer, H.L., Kim, P., 2005. Experimental observation of the quantum Hall effect and Berry’s phase in graphene. Nature 438, 201–204.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beagle, J.R., 2013. Surgical Essentials of Immediate Implant Dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Rausch, P., Sheta, A.F., Ayesh, A. (Eds.), 2013. Business Intelligence and Performance Management: Theory, Systems and Industrial Applications, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Joung, M., Baldick, R., Kristiansen, T., 2013. Generator Ownership of Financial Transmission Rights and Market Power, in: Rosellón, J., Kristiansen, T. (Eds.), Financial Transmission Rights: Analysis, Experiences and Prospects, Lecture Notes in Energy. Springer, London, pp. 129–155.

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. Move Over Milky Way, Elliptical Galaxies Are The Most Habitable In The Cosmos [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/move-over-milky-way-elliptical-galaxies-are-most-habitable-cosmos/ (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, 1977. Deferral of Energy Research and Development Administration Budget Authority (No. OGC-77-23). 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

Murray, R.W., 2010. The Florida Migrant Education Program: An analysis of programmatic and expenditure practices (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Barron, J., 2016. Famous for Its Past, a Small New Jersey Town Struggles to Define Its Future. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Levine, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bishopp and Bennett, 2015; Levine, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bishopp and Bennett, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2005)

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