How to format your references using the Acta Mechanica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Mechanica. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Klein, R.G.: Paleoanthropology. Whither the Neanderthals? Science. 299, 1525–1527 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Higgins, S.I., Scheiter, S.: Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally. Nature. 488, 209–212 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Bai, J., Virovets, A.V., Scheer, M.: Synthesis of inorganic fullerene-like molecules. Science. 300, 781–783 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Iwata, N., Sekiguchi, M., Hattori, Y., Takahashi, A., Asai, M., Ji, B., Higuchi, M., Staufenbiel, M., Muramatsu, S.-I., Saido, T.C.: Global brain delivery of neprilysin gene by intravascular administration of AAV vector in mice. Sci. Rep. 3, 1472 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, W., Wan, M.: Milling Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Sobh, T., Elleithy, K. eds: Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering: Proceedings of SCSS05. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, L., Yang, T., Shi, P., Zhu, Y.: Time-Delay Systems Case. In: Yang, T., Shi, P., and Zhu, Y. (eds.) Analysis and Design of Markov Jump Systems with Complex Transition Probabilities. pp. 57–70. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Acta Mechanica.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: Was Japan’s 6.9M Earthquake Linked To The 2011 Megathrust Disaster?, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/japan-earthquake-linked-2011-megathrust-disaster/

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: Influence Of Public Affairs Organizations On Information And Advertising Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1971)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown, C.P.: Range vs. register: An important distinction in choral repertoire for the adolescent male, (2010)

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

Mueller, B., Schweber, N.: Brooklyn Fire Kills 7 Children, Worst Toll in City Since 2007, (2015)

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	Acta Mechanica
Abbreviation	Acta Mech.
ISSN (print)	0001-5970
ISSN (online)	1619-6937
Scope	Computational Mechanics Mechanical Engineering