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]

J. Rodriguez, Recruiters and industry. Rules of engagement, Nature 429 (2004) 486.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Krishnan, E.J. Nestler, The molecular neurobiology of depression, Nature 455 (2008) 894–902.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Danchin, E. Wajnberg, R.H. Wagner, Avoiding pitfalls in estimating heritability with the common options approach, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3974.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Rambaut, D.L. Robertson, O.G. Pybus, M. Peeters, E.C. Holmes, Human immunodeficiency virus. Phylogeny and the origin of HIV-1, Nature 410 (2001) 1047–1048.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2003.

An edited book

[1]

G. Wuerthner, E. Crist, T. Butler, eds., Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation, Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Heimer, M. Rivlin, Z. Israel, H. Bergman, Synchronizing activity of basal ganglia and pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease, in: P. Riederer, H. Reichmann, M.B.H. Youdim, M. Gerlach (Eds.), Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders, Springer, Vienna, 2006: pp. 17–20.

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, The Number Of Chimpanzees Used In Biomedical Research Is Declining, IFLScience (2015).

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, Head Start Programs: Participant Characteristics, Services, and Funding, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.C. Quintero, Constructing a Clinical Research Data Management System, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2017.

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]

A.L. Baker, B. Mueller, Suspect in Machete Killing Said Neighbors Spied on Him, Officials Say, New York Times (2016) A21.

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