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

Purnell BA (2013) Morphogenesis. Getting into shape. Introduction. Science 340:1183

A journal article with 2 authors

Sander PM, Klein N (2005) Developmental plasticity in the life history of a prosauropod dinosaur. Science 310:1800–1802

A journal article with 3 authors

Pohl MED, Pope KO, von Nagy C (2002) Olmec origins of Mesoamerican writing. Science 298:1984–1987

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fan H-Y, Liu Z, Shimada M, et al (2009) MAPK3/1 (ERK1/2) in ovarian granulosa cells are essential for female fertility. Science 324:938–941

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. Wen E, Ellis R, S. Pujar N (2014) Vaccine Development and Manufacturing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sibilia C, Benson TM, Marciniak M, Szoplik T (eds) (2008) Photonic Crystals: Physics and Technology. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Stefanova N (2014) Animal Models. In: Wenning GK, Fanciulli A (eds) Multiple System Atrophy. Springer, Vienna, pp 83–96

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) Rare and Deadly, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Remains a Bit of a Medical Mystery. In: IFLScience. 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 (1975) Federal Funding Provided to 10 Police Departments for Intelligence Activities. 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

Kuang S-YH (2010) “And the War Came”: A memorial to devastated lives. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 (2017) Mystery of the Hamilton Painting at City Hall: Lost, Stolen or Never There? New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Purnell 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Sander and Klein 2005; Purnell 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sander and Klein 2005)
Three or more authors: (Fan et al. 2009)

About the journal

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