How to format your references using the Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization citation style

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

Chambers J (2014) Planetary science: A chronometer for Earth’s age. Nature 508:51–52

A journal article with 2 authors

Kurotobi K, Murata Y (2011) A single molecule of water encapsulated in fullerene C₆₀. Science 333:613–616

A journal article with 3 authors

Shubin N, Tabin C, Carroll S (2009) Deep homology and the origins of evolutionary novelty. Nature 457:818–823

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Leake MC, Chandler JH, Wadhams GH, et al (2006) Stoichiometry and turnover in single, functioning membrane protein complexes. Nature 443:355–358

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barbaroux P, Attour A, Schenk E (2016) Knowledge Management and Innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hairer E, Wanner G (eds) (2008) Analysis by Its History. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Meyer B (2005) The Dependent Delegate Dilemma. In: Broy M, Grünbauer J, Harel D, Hoare T (eds) Engineering Theories of Software Intensive Systems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Engineering Theories of Software Intensive Systems Marktoberdorf, Germany 3–15 August 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 105–118

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 Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Oceans in imminent danger of losing a quarter of all sharks and stingrays. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oceans-imminent-danger-losing-quarter-all-sharks-and-stingrays/. 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 (1982) UMTA’s Research and Development Program Should Pay Closer Attention to Transit Industry Needs. 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

Strickland KC (2012) A historical analysis of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. 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

Chavez L (2006) American Dreams, Foreign Flags. New York Times A25

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Chambers 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kurotobi and Murata 2011; Chambers 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kurotobi and Murata 2011)
Three or more authors: (Leake et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
Abbreviation	Struct. Multidiscipl. Optim.
ISSN (print)	1615-147X
ISSN (online)	1615-1488
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Computer Science Applications Software Control and Systems Engineering Control and Optimization

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