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

Kerr, R.A., 2000. EARTH SCIENCE: Did Volcanoes Drive Ancient Extinctions? Science 289, 1130–1131.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barnes, M.J., Powrie, F., 2011. Immunology. The gut’s Clostridium cocktail. Science 331, 289–290.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cooper, T.F., O’Leary, R.A., Lough, J.M., 2012. Growth of Western Australian corals in the anthropocene. Science 335, 593–596.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nieuwenhuis, J., Adamopoulos, A., Bleijerveld, O.B., Mazouzi, A., Stickel, E., Celie, P., Altelaar, M., Knipscheer, P., Perrakis, A., Blomen, V.A., Brummelkamp, T.R., 2017. Vasohibins encode tubulin detyrosinating activity. Science 358, 1453–1456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGeough, J.A., 2013. The Engineering of Human Joint Replacements. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sijde, P. van der, Ridder, A., Blaauw, G., Diensberg, C. (Eds.), 2008. Teaching Entrepreneurship: Cases for Education and Training, Contributions to Management Science. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Limpert, J., Eidam, T., Baumgartl, M., Röser, F., Plötner, M., Ortaç, B., Nolte, S., Tünnermann, A., 2016. Compact Ultrafast Oscillators and High Performance Ultrafast Amplifiers Based on Ytterbium-Doped Fibers, in: Nolte, Stefan, Schrempel, F., Dausinger, F. (Eds.), Ultrashort Pulse Laser Technology: Laser Sources and Applications, Springer Series in Optical Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 75–91.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Scientists Think They May Have Solved The Siberian Crater Mystery [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-think-they-may-have-solved-siberian-crater-mystery/ (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, 1979. Default Rates on Federal Student Loans (No. B-164031(1).136). 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

Smith, A.P., 2013. The Leadership Potential of School Librarians (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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS, 2010. Pilgrim, The Final Volume. New York Times C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Barnes and Powrie, 2011; Kerr, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Barnes and Powrie, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Nieuwenhuis et al., 2017)

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