How to format your references using the International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design. 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

Gumbsch, P.: Materials science. Modeling strain hardening the hard way. Science. 301, 1857–1858 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Fan, Q.R., Hendrickson, W.A.: Structure of human follicle-stimulating hormone in complex with its receptor. Nature. 433, 269–277 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghosh, P., Garzione, C.N., Eiler, J.M.: Rapid uplift of the Altiplano revealed through 13C-18O bonds in paleosol carbonates. Science. 311, 511–515 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Klie, R.F., Buban, J.P., Varela, M., Franceschetti, A., Jooss, C., Zhu, Y., Browning, N.D., Pantelides, S.T., Pennycook, S.J.: Enhanced current transport at grain boundaries in high-T(c) superconductors. Nature. 435, 475–478 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdel-aleem, S.: The Design and Management of Medical Device clinical Trials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Apsel, A.: Design of Ultra-Low Power Impulse Radios. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Chakravarthy, S., Jiang, Q.: MODELING CONTINUOUS QUERIES OVER DATA STREAMS. In: Chakravarthy, S. (ed.) Stream Data Processing: A Quality of Service Perspective: Modeling, Scheduling, Load Shedding, and Complex Event Processing. pp. 49–93. Springer US, Boston, MA (2009)

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 International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Compound In Red Wine Might Help Alzheimer’s Patients, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/compound-red-wine-found-stabilize-protein-associated-alzheimers/

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: Election Reform: Nine States’ Experiences Implementing Federal Requirements for Computerized Statewide Voter Registration Lists. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2006)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Child, R.J.: The evolution of BARREN INFLORESCENCE1 and related AUX/IAA genes in angiosperms, (2013)

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

Kanter, J.: As Hopes for European Unity Dim, New E.U. Headquarters Are Glowing, (2016)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gumbsch 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Fan and Hendrickson 2005; Gumbsch 2003).

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

Two authors: (Fan and Hendrickson 2005)
Three or more authors: (Klie et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design
Abbreviation	Int. J. Mech. Mater. Des.
ISSN (print)	1569-1713
ISSN (online)	1573-8841
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science