How to format your references using the Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials. 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

Leonard, K.E.: Perspective: Beyond the neural circuits. Nature. 522, S56 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Zinkernagel, R.M., Hengartner, H.: Regulation of the immune response by antigen. Science. 293, 251–253 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Moritz, C.T., Perlmutter, S.I., Fetz, E.E.: Direct control of paralysed muscles by cortical neurons. Nature. 456, 639–642 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

McNab, F., Varrone, A., Farde, L., Jucaite, A., Bystritsky, P., Forssberg, H., Klingberg, T.: Changes in cortical dopamine D1 receptor binding associated with cognitive training. Science. 323, 800–802 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hammes, G.G.: Spectroscopy for the Biological Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2005)

An edited book

Sergeyev, Y.D.: Introduction to Global Optimization Exploiting Space-Filling Curves. Springer, New York, NY (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Bender, S.: On Worlds, Laws and Tiles: Leibniz and the Problem of Compossibility. In: Brown, G. and Chiek, Y. (eds.) Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds. pp. 65–90. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Time-Dependent Materials.

Blog post

Hale, T.: Swim Through Indonesia’s Coral Reefs In This Immersive 360° Video, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/swim-through-indonesias-coral-reefs-in-this-immersive-360-video/

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: Airline Competition: Options For Addressing Financial and Competition Problems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1993)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzales, D.S.: Identifying factors and quantifying their impact on transportation costs of pre-processes biomass, (2012)

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

Vecsey, G.: Faces Change for Yanks, but Postseason Focus Doesn’t, (2010)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leonard 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Leonard 2015; Zinkernagel and Hengartner 2001).

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

Two authors: (Zinkernagel and Hengartner 2001)
Three or more authors: (McNab et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials
Abbreviation	Mech. Time Depend. Mater.
ISSN (print)	1385-2000
ISSN (online)	1573-2738
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering General Materials Science