How to format your references using the Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology. 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]

Naccache, L., 2006, “Psychology. Is She Conscious?,” Science, 313(5792), pp. 1395–1396.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hoffmann, A. A., and Sgrò, C. M., 2011, “Climate Change and Evolutionary Adaptation,” Nature, 470(7335), pp. 479–485.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tsukahara, T., Tanno, Y., and Watanabe, Y., 2010, “Phosphorylation of the CPC by Cdk1 Promotes Chromosome Bi-Orientation,” Nature, 467(7316), pp. 719–723.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Barcellos, L. J. G., Koakoski, G., da Rosa, J. G. S., Ferreira, D., Barreto, R. E., Giaquinto, P. C., and Volpato, G. L., 2014, “Chemical Communication of Predation Risk in Zebrafish Does Not Depend on Cortisol Increase,” Sci. Rep., 4, p. 5076.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bersuker, I. B., 2010, Electronic Structure and Properties of Transition Metal Compounds, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Lansiquot, R. D., ed., 2016, Technology, Theory, and Practice in Interdisciplinary STEM Programs: Connecting STEM and Non-STEM Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Berghammer, R., and Kehden, B., 2008, “Relation Algebra and RelView in Practical Use: Construction of Special University Timetables,” Relations and Kleene Algebra in Computer Science: 10th International Conference on Relational Methods in Computer Science, and 5th International Conference on Applications of Kleene Algebra, RelMiCS/AKA 2008, Frauenwörth, Germany, April 7-11, 2008. Proceedings, R. Berghammer, B. Möller, and G. Struth, eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 22–36.

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 Engineering Materials and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, D., 2016, “Drugs Fatalities Overtake Car Fatalities For The First Time,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/drugs-fatalities-overtake-car-fatalities-for-the-first-time/. [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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 2003, Aviation Safety: Undeclared Air Shipments of Dangerous Goods and DOT’s Enforcement Approach, GAO-03-22, 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

[1]

Ho, T., 2012, “The Influence of Physical Activity and Unsafe Neighborhoods on the Development of Gestational Diabetes among Women in California,” 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

[1]

Sisario, B., 2017, “Kendrick Lamar Returns to No. 1,” New York Times, p. C3.

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 Engineering Materials and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Eng. Mater. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0094-4289
ISSN (online)	1528-8889
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics