How to format your references using the Visualization of Mechanical Processes: An International Online Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Visualization of Mechanical Processes: An International Online Journal (VMP). 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

Gabuzda, D., Astrophysics: The MAD World of Black Holes, Nature, vol. 510, no. 7503, pp. 42–43, June 5, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beveridge, C. and Morris, S., Order of Merit, Nature, vol. 448, no. 7152, p. 508, July 26, 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiang, C., Chan, C.-K. and Wang, J., Proposal and Numerical Study of Ultra-Compact Active Hybrid Plasmonic Resonator for Sub-Wavelength Lasing Applications, Scientific Reports, vol. 4, p. 3720, January 16, 2014.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhang, J., Baker, M. L., Schröder, G. F., Douglas, N. R., Reissmann, S., Jakana, J., Dougherty, M., et al., Mechanism of Folding Chamber Closure in a Group II Chaperonin, Nature, vol. 463, no. 7279, pp. 379–83, January 21, 2010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bai, Y., Practical Database Programming with Visual Basic.NET, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

König, H., Unden, G., and Fröhlich, J. Eds., Biology of Microorganisms on Grapes, in Must and in Wine, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, XVIII, 522 p, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Dörfler, P., Sick, M. and Coutu, A., Cavitation-Related Phenomena, in Flow-Induced Pulsation and Vibration in Hydroelectric Machinery: Engineer’s Guidebook for Planning, Design and Troubleshooting, M. Sick and A. Coutu, Eds., London: Springer, pp. 129–42, 2013.

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 Visualization of Mechanical Processes: An International Online Journal.

Blog post

Fang, J., New Research Reveals The US Cities That Have Already Been Doomed By Climate Change, IFLScience, October 13, 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

Government Accountability Office, Information Technology: Census Bureau Testing of 2010 Decennial Systems Can Be Strengthened, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-09-262, Mar. 5, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Conill, A. L., Dosimetric Consequences of the Parotid Glands Using CT-to-CBCT Deformable Registration during IMRT for Late Stage Head and Neck Cancers, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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

Vanderwoude, M., Odd Question From a Man of God, New York Times, June 28, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gabuzda, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gabuzda, 2014; Beveridge et al., 2007).

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

Two authors: (Beveridge et al., 2007)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Visualization of Mechanical Processes: An International Online Journal
ISSN (online)	2152-209X
Scope