How to format your references using the Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica. 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

[1]

J. Liechty, Scientists and bankers - a new model army, Nature 484 (2012) 143.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.J. Davis, C. Shearer, Climate change: A crack in the natural-gas bridge, Nature 514 (2014) 436–437.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Schweinfest, A.T. Paxton, M.W. Finnis, Bismuth embrittlement of copper is an atomic size effect, Nature 432 (2004) 1008–1011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Kaya, D. Schlesinger, S. Yamamoto, J.T. Newberg, H. Bluhm, H. Ogasawara, T. Kendelewicz, G.E. Brown Jr, L.G.M. Pettersson, A. Nilsson, Highly compressed two-dimensional form of water at ambient conditions, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1074.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Barnes, The JCT 05 Standard Building Sub-Contract, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Wu, ed., Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering: Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Odifreddi, 1994, in: R. Betti, A. Guerraggio, S. Termini (Eds.), Storie e Protagonisti Della Matematica Italiana: Per Raccontare 20 Anni Di «Lettera Matematica Pristem», Springer, Milano, 2013: pp. 49–64.

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 Solida Sinica.

Blog post

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E. Andrew, New Cancer Drugs Are Very Expensive - Here’s How We Work Out Value For Our Money, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-cancer-drugs-are-very-expensive-here-s-how-we-work-out-value-our-money/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Information Technology: Continued Attention Needed to Accurately Report Federal Spending and Improve Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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A. Grigoryan, Feedback 2.0 in online writing instruction: Combining audio-visual and text-based commentary to enhance student revision and writing competency, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

[1]

G. Prochnik, Our Freudian Complex, New York Times (2017) BR1.

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 Solida Sinica
ISSN (print)	0894-9166
Scope