How to format your references using the Procedia Structural Integrity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Procedia Structural Integrity. 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

[1]

M.R. Willig, Ecology. Biodiversity and productivity, Science 333 (2011) 1709–1710.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.F. Strauss 3rd, M. Kafrissen, Waiting for the second coming, Nature 432 (2004) 43–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Li, T. Sato, A. Kageyama, Repeated and sudden reversals of the dipole field generated by a spherical dynamo action, Science 295 (2002) 1887–1890.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Zheng, W. Shen, D.Z. He, K.B. Long, L.D. Madison, P. Dallos, Prestin is the motor protein of cochlear outer hair cells, Nature 405 (2000) 149–155.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Sauter, From GSM to LTE, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

L. Agapito, M.M. Bronstein, C. Rother, eds., Computer Vision - ECCV 2014 Workshops: Zurich, Switzerland, September 6-7 and 12, 2014, Proceedings, Part IV, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. La Piscopia, E.E. Sullivan, C. McDermott, From Feast to Famine? The Archaeological Profession in Ireland in the New Millennium, in: J.H. Jameson, J. Eogan (Eds.), Training and Practice for Modern Day Archaeologists, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 69–85.

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 Procedia Structural Integrity.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Watch A Diamond Burn In Pure Oxygen, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/watch-diamond-burn-pure-oxygen/ (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, Aviation Safety: FAA’s Safety Oversight System Is Effective but Could Benefit from Better Evaluation of Its Programs’ Performance, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Smith, Outsider leadership transitions: A phenomenological study of Army Reserve General Officers, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Justices Order Rethinking Of eBay Case, New York Times (2006) C1.

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	Procedia Structural Integrity
ISSN (print)	2452-3216
Scope