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

Gershon, D.: DNA microarrays: more than gene expression. Nature. 437, 1195–1198 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

Lockhart, D.J., Winzeler, E.A.: Genomics, gene expression and DNA arrays. Nature. 405, 827–836 (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Migliari, S., Fender, R., Méndez, M.: Iron emission lines from extended x-ray jets in SS 433: reheating of atomic nuclei. Science. 297, 1673–1676 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Seeger, M.A., Schiefner, A., Eicher, T., Verrey, F., Diederichs, K., Pos, K.M.: Structural asymmetry of AcrB trimer suggests a peristaltic pump mechanism. Science. 313, 1295–1298 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fränzle, S., Markert, B., Wünschmann, S.: Introduction to Environmental Engineering. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2012)

An edited book

Wintgens, L.J., Oliver-Lalana, A.D. eds: The Rationality and Justification of Legislation: Essays in Legisprudence. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Verrier, R.L.: Neural Regulation of the Heart in Health and Disease. In: Gussak, I., Antzelevitch, C., Wilde, A.A.M., Friedman, P.A., Ackerman, M.J., and Shen, W.-K. (eds.) Electrical Diseases of the Heart: Genetics, Mechanisms, Treatment, Prevention. pp. 52–64. Springer, London (2008)

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.: This “Hedgehog” Robot Could Hop And Tumble Over Asteroids And Comets

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: Highway Safety: More Robust DOT Oversight of Guardrails and Other Roadside Hardware Could Further Enhance Safety. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2016)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Starkenberg, L.I.: Health science student’s knowledge of oral health and preventive practices, (2015)

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.: Sympathy for the Umpires, (2009)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2005; Lockhart and Winzeler 2000).

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

Two authors: (Lockhart and Winzeler 2000)
Three or more authors: (Seeger et al. 2006)

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