How to format your references using the Shape Memory and Superelasticity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Shape Memory and Superelasticity. 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

Bowman JM (2008) Chemistry. Beyond Born-Oppenheimer. Science 319:40–41

A journal article with 2 authors

Quellmalz ES, Pellegrino JW (2009) Technology and testing. Science 323:75–79

A journal article with 3 authors

Wittlinger M, Wehner R, Wolf H (2006) The ant odometer: stepping on stilts and stumps. Science 312:1965–1967

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Borgia A, Borgia MB, Bugge K, et al (2018) Extreme disorder in an ultrahigh-affinity protein complex. Nature 555:61–66

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards T (2014) Investing Psychology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ramanathan AL, Bhattacharya P, Dittmar T, et al (2010) Management and Sustainable Development of Coastal Zone Environments. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Cockburn D, Kobti Z (2009) Agent Specialization in Complex Social Swarms. In: Lim CP, Jain LC, Dehuri S (eds) Innovations in Swarm Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 77–89

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 Shape Memory and Superelasticity.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Factories In Space: How Extra-Terrestrial Industry Could Keep Humans Alive. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1994) Weather Forecasting: Improvements Needed in Laboratory Software Development Processes. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Randall R (2009) Department of Children and Family Services workers’ knowledge of childhood obesity and services for obese children. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wines M, Fernandez M (2016) Stricter Rules Over Voter IDs Reshape Races. New York Times A1

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	Shape Memory and Superelasticity
ISSN (print)	2199-384X
ISSN (online)	2199-3858
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