How to format your references using the Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Modern Processes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Modern Processes. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Butler D (2003) Ministers back gene-crop advisers. Nature 421:775

A journal article with 2 authors

Kinbara K, Aida T (2006) Chemistry. From electron pump to proton channel. Science 313:51–52

A journal article with 3 authors

Miles MA, Yeo M, Mauricio IL (2009) Genetics. Leishmania exploit sex. Science 324:187–189

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Karlsson A, Karlsson R, Karlsson M, et al (2001) Networks of nanotubes and containers. Nature 409:150–152

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (2003) Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Christianson B, Crispo B, Malcolm J, Stajano F (eds) (2011) Security Protocols XIX: 19th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, March 28-30, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kirkwood DH, Suéry M, Kapranos P, et al (2010) Recent Developments in Slurry Formation. In: Suéry M, Kapranos P, Atkinson HV, Young KP (eds) Semi-solid Processing of Alloys. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–37

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 Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Modern Processes.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Our Star Trek-Style Skin-Healing Technology Could Be The End Of Chronic Wounds. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/our-star-trek-style-skin-healing-technology-could-be-end-chronic-wounds/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2001) Social Security: Observations on Improving Distribution of Death Information. 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

Pigott C (2016) School Resource Officers and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Discovering Trends of Expulsions in Public Schools. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Herrman J (2016) Stage Craft. New York Times MM15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Butler 2003; Kinbara and Aida 2006).

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

Two authors: (Kinbara and Aida 2006)
Three or more authors: (Karlsson et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Modern Processes
Abbreviation	Mech. Adv. Mater. Mod. Process.
ISSN (online)	2198-7874
Scope