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

Lodge DM (2015) Faith and science can find common ground. Nature 523:503

A journal article with 2 authors

Park J, Levin V (2002) Seismic anisotropy: tracing plate dynamics in the mantle. Science 296:485–489

A journal article with 3 authors

Foster SL, Hargreaves DC, Medzhitov R (2007) Gene-specific control of inflammation by TLR-induced chromatin modifications. Nature 447:972–978

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu Q, Xin W, He P, et al (2014) Interleukin-17 inhibits adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Sci Rep 4:7554

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Storey IC, Allan A (2008) A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Knüpfer A, Hilbrich T, Niethammer C, et al (2016) Tools for High Performance Computing 2015: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing, September 2015, Dresden, Germany. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Deng X, Sun Y, Yin M, Zhou Y (2010) Mechanism Design for Multi-slot Ads Auction in Sponsored Search Markets. In: Lee D-T, Chen DZ, Ying S (eds) Frontiers in Algorithmics: 4th International Workshop, FAW 2010, Wuhan, China, August 11-13, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 11–22

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

Fang J (2014) Rare Blurring Of Black Hole Light Observed. 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 (2016) Smartphone Data: Information and Issues Regarding Surreptitious Tracking Apps That Can Facilitate Stalking. 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

Rosenberg EL (2010) Learning to live: The clinical importance of first-person accounts of recovery from anorexia nervosa. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Otis J, Sweis RF (2017) An Iraqi Family Split by the Vagaries of Asylum. New York Times A4

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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