How to format your references using the Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

K. Kreeger, At last, a chance for postdocs to learn how to teach, Nature. 415 (2002) 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Mogilner, G. Oster, Cell biology. Shrinking gels pull cells, Science. 302 (2003) 1340–1341.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G.L. Christeson, K.D. McIntosh, J.A. Karson, Inconsistent correlation of seismic layer 2a and lava layer thickness in oceanic crust, Nature. 445 (2007) 418–421.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Rassoulzadegan, V. Grandjean, P. Gounon, S. Vincent, I. Gillot, F. Cuzin, RNA-mediated non-mendelian inheritance of an epigenetic change in the mouse, Nature. 441 (2006) 469–474.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Michaud, Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

W.A. Rodrigues, The Many Faces of Maxwell, Dirac and Einstein Equations: A Clifford Bundle Approach, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. McCown, D. Reibel, M.S. Micozzi, The Person of the Teacher, in: D. Reibel, M.S. Micozzi (Eds.), Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators, Springer, New York, NY, 2010: pp. 91–101.

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 Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, New Single-Dose Malaria Treatment Could Eventually Help Millions, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-single-dose-malaria-treatment-could-eventually-help-millions/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, NATO: Progress Toward More Mobile and Deployable Forces, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.F. Mitchell, Life-review therapy: A prevention program for the elderly who are experiencing life transitions. A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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

[1]

H. Kelly, Evolving, New York Times. (2016) BR17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics
Abbreviation	Probabilistic Eng. Mech.
ISSN (print)	0266-8920
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Aerospace Engineering Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering Ocean Engineering Condensed Matter Physics Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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