How to format your references using the Journal of Sound and Vibration citation style

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

I.R. Epstein, Chemistry. Can droplets and bubbles think?, Science 315 (2007) 775–776.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F.V. Mariani, G.R. Martin, Deciphering skeletal patterning: clues from the limb, Nature 423 (2003) 319–325.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.J. Merz, M. So, M.P. Sheetz, Pilus retraction powers bacterial twitching motility, Nature 407 (2000) 98–102.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Bartels, S. Backus, E. Zeek, L. Misoguti, G. Vdovin, I.P. Christov, M.M. Murnane, H.C. Kapteyn, Shaped-pulse optimization of coherent emission of high-harmonic soft X-rays, Nature 406 (2000) 164–166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Kaut Roth, W.H. Faulkner Jr, Review Questions for MRI, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Piccolo, ed., Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Innovative Methods, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Pagneux, Trapped Modes and Edge Resonances in Acoustics and Elasticity, in: R.V. Craster, J. Kaplunov (Eds.), Dynamic Localization Phenomena in Elasticity, Acoustics and Electromagnetism, Springer, Vienna, 2013: pp. 181–223.

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 Sound and Vibration.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Intelligent” Slime Mold Can Teach Other Colonies By Fusing With Them, IFLScience (2016).

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, Workforce Development: Community Colleges and One-Stop Centers Collaborate to Meet 21st Century Workforce Needs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.A. Cope, Coastal squeeze of vegetation zones in the Los Cerritos Wetlands: The effect of sea level rise, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

M. Apuzzo, M.S. Schmidt, Comey Expected to Testify About His Talks With Trump, New York Times (2017) A14.

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 Sound and Vibration
Abbreviation	J. Sound Vib.
ISSN (print)	0022-460X
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Acoustics and Ultrasonics Condensed Matter Physics