How to format your references using the Computational Mechanics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Mechanics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Jungwirth P (2009) A chemist realizes that popularity is no measure of strength. Nature 460:555

A journal article with 2 authors

Strausfeld NJ, Hirth F (2013) Deep homology of arthropod central complex and vertebrate basal ganglia. Science 340:157–161

A journal article with 3 authors

Bragg AE, Cavanagh MC, Schwartz BJ (2008) Linear response breakdown in solvation dynamics induced by atomic electron-transfer reactions. Science 321:1817–1822

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ruckh TT, Mehta AA, Dubach JM, Clark HA (2013) Polymer-free optode nanosensors for dynamic, reversible, and ratiometric sodium imaging in the physiological range. Sci Rep 3:3366

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Juhnke GA, Granello DH, Granello PF (2010) Suicide, Self-Injury, and Violence in the Schools. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Stefanović D (2008) Structured Analog CMOS Design. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Wang X, Reeves D (2015) Active Timing Based Traceback. In: Reeves D (ed) Traceback and Anonymity. Springer, New York, NY, pp 23–47

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 Computational Mechanics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Virus Kills One Man In USA. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-virus-identified-following-single-death-kansas/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2000) Critical Infrastructure Protection: “ILOVEYOU” Computer Virus Highlights Need for Improved Alert and Coordination Capabilities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Parhad A (2015) Energy scavenging using piezoelectric sensors to power in pavement intelligent vehicle detection systems. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Shpigel B (2017) Its Sports Fandom Evolving, Atlanta Chases Football Glory. New York Times A1

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	Computational Mechanics
Abbreviation	Comput. Mech.
ISSN (print)	0178-7675
ISSN (online)	1432-0924
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Ocean Engineering Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics