How to format your references using the Journal of Elasticity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Elasticity. 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

Bartal, G.: Nanophotonics: bright future for hyperbolic chips. Nature. 522, 160–161 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Mulcahy, N.J., Call, J.: Apes save tools for future use. Science. 312, 1038–1040 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Oka, Y., Ye, M., Zuker, C.S.: Thirst driving and suppressing signals encoded by distinct neural populations in the brain. Nature. 520, 349–352 (2015)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Salge, J.R., Dreyer, B.J., Dauenhauer, P.J., Schmidt, L.D.: Renewable hydrogen from nonvolatile fuels by reactive flash volatilization. Science. 314, 801–804 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guzinski, J., Abu-Rub, H., Strankowski, P.: Variable Speed AC Drives with Inverter Output Filters. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2015)

An edited book

Aziz-Alaoui, M.A., Bertelle, C. eds: From System Complexity to Emergent Properties. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Gargaud, M., Martin, H., López-García, P., Montmerle, T., Pascal, R.: The Late Heavy Bombardment. In: Martin, H., López-García, P., Montmerle, T., and Pascal, R. (eds.) Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life: Lessons for Astrobiology. pp. 155–165. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

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 Journal of Elasticity.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: Five Ways Christmas Affects Your Brain, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/five-ways-christmas-affects-your-brain/

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: Public Safety Communications: Preliminary Information on FirstNet’s Efforts to Establish a Nationwide Broadband Network. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2015)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aghaee, M.: Analysis of Dynamics and Optimal Control for an SIR Epidemiological Model with Time-varying Populations, (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

Bernstein, N.: Medicaid Shift Fuels Rush for Profitable Clients, (2014)

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	Journal of Elasticity
Abbreviation	J. Elast.
ISSN (print)	0374-3535
ISSN (online)	1573-2681
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science