How to format your references using the Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology citation style

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

M.S. Peeples, Astronomy: Cosmic fog and smog, Nature 517 (7535) (2015) 444–445.

A journal article with 2 authors

C.R. Ranero and M. Pérez-Gussinyé, Sequential faulting explains the asymmetry and extension discrepancy of conjugate margins, Nature 468 (7321) (2010) 294–299.

A journal article with 3 authors

M.F. Whiting, S. Bradler, and T. Maxwell, Loss and recovery of wings in stick insects, Nature 421 (6920) (2003) 264–267.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Z. Su et al., Robustness of interrelated traffic networks to cascading failures, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5413.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

G. Tourlakis, Mathematical Logic, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, (2008).

An edited book

O. Cappé, Inference in Hidden Markov Models, Springer, New York, NY, (2005).

A chapter in an edited book

V. Mohanraj et al., Face Recognition in Video Using Deformable Parts Model with Scale Invariant Feature Transform (DPSIFT), in R. Chaki, A. Cortesi, K. Saeed, N. Chaki (Eds.), Advanced Computing and Systems for Security: Volume 2, Springer India, New Delhi, (2016): pp. 69–80.

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 Mechanical Science and Technology.

Blog post

E. Andrew, Researchers Use Gene Editing To Mimic A Mutation That Confers HIV Resistance In The Lab, IFLScience (2014).

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, Rail Safety: The Federal Railroad Administration Is Taking Steps to Better Target Its Oversight, but Assessment of Results Is Needed to Determine Impact, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2007).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

A.L. Al-Qazzaz, A kinetic study of the radiolytic degradation of phthalates in aqueous solutions, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

G. Vecsey, Defections Fuel A Complicated Rivalry, New York Times (2011) B11.

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 Mechanical Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Mech. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1738-494X
ISSN (online)	1976-3824
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials