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

Shen H (2014) Interactive notebooks: Sharing the code. Nature 515:151–152

A journal article with 2 authors

Nacher JC, Akutsu T (2013) Structural controllability of unidirectional bipartite networks. Sci Rep 3:1647

A journal article with 3 authors

Cacchione DA, Pratson LF, Ogston AS (2002) The shaping of continental slopes by internal tides. Science 296:724–727

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mills EL, Pierce KA, Jedrychowski MP, et al (2018) Accumulation of succinate controls activation of adipose tissue thermogenesis. Nature 560:102–106

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mashadi B, Crolla D (2012) Vehicle Powertrain Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gilfillan AM, Metcalfe DD (eds) (2011) Mast Cell Biology: Contemporary and Emerging Topics. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Obrosova IG (2007) Hyperglycemia-Initiated Mechanisms in Diabetic Neuropathy. In: Veves A, Malik RA (eds) Diabetic Neuropathy: Clinical Management. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 69–90

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) Gene Therapy Offers Fresh Hope to Cystic Fibrosis Sufferers. 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 (1995) Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. 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

Tafoya A (2010) Impact of HIV/AIDS stigma on seropositive Latinos along the United States-Mexico border. 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

Brantley B (2017) Daughter, You’ve Turned Into Your Mother. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shen 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Nacher and Akutsu 2013; Shen 2014).

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

Two authors: (Nacher and Akutsu 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mills et al. 2018)

About the journal

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