How to format your references using the Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and 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	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

[1]

P.B. Reich, Climate Change. The carbon dioxide exchange, Science 329 (2010) 774–775.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Jenuwein, C.D. Allis, Translating the histone code, Science 293 (2001) 1074–1080.

A journal article with 3 authors

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B.J. Richmond, Z. Liu, M. Shidara, Neuroscience. Predicting future rewards, Science 301 (2003) 179–180.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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J.S. Sinninghe Damsté, M. Strous, W.I.C. Rijpstra, E.C. Hopmans, J.A.J. Geenevasen, A.C.T. van Duin, L.A. van Niftrik, M.S.M. Jetten, Linearly concatenated cyclobutane lipids form a dense bacterial membrane, Nature 419 (2002) 708–712.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Knowles, 150 Contractual Problems and their Solutions, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

N.D. Hartlep, Asian/American Curricular Epistemicide: From Being Excluded to Becoming a Model Minority, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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P. Soffer, C. Rolland, Combining Intention-Oriented and State-Based Process Modeling, in: L. Delcambre, C. Kop, H.C. Mayr, J. Mylopoulos, O. Pastor (Eds.), Conceptual Modeling – ER 2005: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005: pp. 47–62.

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 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

Blog post

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B. Taub, Worms Go Through A Rebellious Teenage Phase Too, IFLScience (2017).

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

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Government Accountability Office, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of the Telecommunications Industry, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

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.M. Cox, Functional Gain and Change Mechanisms in Post-Production Complex Systems, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2017.

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]

B. Bailey, Lost and Found, New York Times (2017) BR22.

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	Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Abbreviation	Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0045-7825
Scope	Computer Science Applications Computational Mechanics Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Physics and Astronomy