How to format your references using the Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. 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]

M.I. Hoffert, Climate change. Farewell to fossil fuels?, Science 329 (2010) 1292–1294.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Rolett, J. Diamond, Environmental predictors of pre-European deforestation on Pacific islands, Nature 431 (2004) 443–446.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Zhu, G.B. Golding, A.M. Dean, The selective cause of an ancient adaptation, Science 307 (2005) 1279–1282.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Mereuta, M. Roy, A. Asandei, J.K. Lee, Y. Park, I. Andricioaei, T. Luchian, Slowing down single-molecule trafficking through a protein nanopore reveals intermediates for peptide translocation, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3885.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.A. Cooney, J.R. Chappell, R.J. Callan, B.A. Connally, Veterinary Euthanasia Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

K.R. Chaudhuri, Handbook of Non-Motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease, Springer Healthcare UK, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.-Y. Lam, E.C. Liong, G.L. Tipoe, M. Fung, Expression of HIF-2α and HIF-3α in the Rat Carotid Body in Chronic Hypoxia, in: Y. Hayashida, C. Gonzalez, H. Kondo (Eds.), THE ARTERIAL CHEMORECEPTORS, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006: pp. 29–36.

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 Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Moment Two Absolute Idiots Attempted To SURF On A Whale Shark, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-absolute-idiots-attempt-surf-whale-shark/ (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, Selected Contracts, Purchase Orders, and Grants Awarded to Indian Tribes and Organizations During Fiscal Year 1971, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Aghaee, Analysis of Dynamics and Optimal Control for an SIR Epidemiological Model with Time-varying Populations, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2016.

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]

K. Crow, Big Trucks Take More Detours, and Residents Near Holland Tunnel Just Smile, New York Times (2002) 145.

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	Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
Abbreviation	Arch. Civ. Mech. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1644-9665
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering