How to format your references using the Composites: Mechanics, Computations, Applications: An International Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Composites: Mechanics, Computations, Applications: An International Journal (CMCA). 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

Gross, D. J., The Frontier Physicist, Nature, vol. 467, no. 7317, p. S8, October 14, 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hugall, A. F. and Stuart-Fox, D., Accelerated Speciation in Colour-Polymorphic Birds, Nature, vol. 485, no. 7400, pp. 631–34, May 9, 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, A. E., Ginty, D. D. and Fan, C.-M., Protein Kinase A Signalling via CREB Controls Myogenesis Induced by Wnt Proteins, Nature, vol. 433, no. 7023, pp. 317–22, January 20, 2005.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Walter, F., Riechers, D., Cox, P., Neri, R., Carilli, C., Bertoldi, F., Weiss, A. and Maiolino, R., A Kiloparsec-Scale Hyper-Starburst in a Quasar Host Less than 1 Gigayear after the Big Bang, Nature, vol. 457, no. 7230, pp. 699–701, February 5, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maidl, B., Herrenknecht, M., Maidl, U. and Wehrmeyer, G., Maschineller Tunnelbau Im Schildvortrieb, Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2011.

An edited book

Ehrentraut, D., Meissner, E., and Bockowski, M. Eds., Technology of Gallium Nitride Crystal Growth, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, XXII, 326 p. 200 illus, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhbanova, E. V. and Zubov, L. M., The Influence of Distributed Dislocations on Large Deformations of an Elastic Sphere, in Advanced Methods of Continuum Mechanics for Materials and Structures, K. Naumenko and M. Aßmus, Eds., Singapore: Springer, pp. 61–76, 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 Composites: Mechanics, Computations, Applications: An International Journal.

Blog post

Taub, B., Patient’s Fart Causes Fire During Surgery, IFLScience, November 2, 2016.

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, Compendium of Courses, 1997, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 158343, Jan. 1, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Monteiro, K. R., An Experimental Study of Corrective Feedback on Synchronous Oral Computer-Mediated Communication, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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

Stewart, J. B., Major Hurdle Awaits A Corporate Tax Cut, New York Times, August 3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gross, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gross, 2010; Hugall et al., 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hugall et al., 2012)
Three or more authors: (Walter et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Composites: Mechanics, Computations, Applications: An International Journal
ISSN (print)	2152-2057
ISSN (online)	2152-2073
Scope