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

Smith, O.: Chemistry. Nota bene: know thine enemy. Science. 294, 1298 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

West, J.D., Bergstrom, C.T.: Psychology. Can ignorance promote democracy? Science. 334, 1503–1504 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Nussbaumer, A.D., Fisher, C.R., Bright, M.: Horizontal endosymbiont transmission in hydrothermal vent tubeworms. Nature. 441, 345–348 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Frankland, P.W., Bontempi, B., Talton, L.E., Kaczmarek, L., Silva, A.J.: The involvement of the anterior cingulate cortex in remote contextual fear memory. Science. 304, 881–883 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rooney, T.: IP Address Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Gini, M., Voyles, R. eds: Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 7. Springer Japan, Tokyo (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Li, F., Klette, R.: Partitioning a Polygon or the Plane. In: Klette, R. (ed.) Euclidean Shortest Paths: Exact or Approximate Algorithms. pp. 127–169. Springer, London (2011)

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

O`Callaghan, J.: Cassini Snaps Images Of Weird “Ravioli Moon” Pan Orbiting Saturn

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: Health Information Technology: Efforts Continue but Comprehensive Privacy Approach Needed for National Strategy. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2007)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Miller, T.: A qualitative phenomenological study: Hiring nurses re-entering the workforce after chemical dependence, (2014)

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

Pilon, M.: New York City Marathon to Have Tighter Security, (2013)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Smith 2001; West and Bergstrom 2011).

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

Two authors: (West and Bergstrom 2011)
Three or more authors: (Frankland et al. 2004)

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