How to format your references using the International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences citation style

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

Perrin S. Preclinical research: Make mouse studies work. Nature. 2014;507(7493):423-425.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dawson TM, Dawson VL. Molecular pathways of neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Science. 2003;302(5646):819-822.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vandermeer J, Perfecto I, Philpott SM. Clusters of ant colonies and robust criticality in a tropical agroecosystem. Nature. 2008;451(7177):457-459.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bhattacharjee P, Paul S, Banerjee M, et al. Functional compensation of glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1) null by another GST superfamily member, GSTM2. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dexter AL. Monitoring and Control of Information-Poor Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Rabe KM, Ahn CH, Triscone JM, eds. Physics of Ferroelectrics: A Modern Perspective. Vol 105. Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Voort M van de, Willis H, Ortiz D, Martonosi S. Applying Risk Assessment To Secure The Containerized Supply Chain. In: Linkov I, Wenning RJ, Kiker GA, eds. Managing Critical Infrastructure Risks: Decision Tools and Applications for Port Security. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer Netherlands; 2007:79-95.

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 Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Rosetta’s Comet Colors Reveal Interesting Surface Composition. IFLScience. November 12, 2015.

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. ADP Budget: Trends in SSA’s Information Technology Systems Budget. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Asare KB. Understanding the Transformational Leadership Practices of Colleges of Education Principals. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral 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

Koblin J. Before Series Debut, FX Says ‘Feud’ Will Endure. New York Times. February 28, 2017:B6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
Abbreviation	Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci. (1997)
ISSN (print)	1365-1609
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology