How to format your references using the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. 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

Rauchway E (2009) Recession Watch: Work for the greater good. Nature 457:959–960

A journal article with 2 authors

Sansom RS, Wills MA (2013) Fossilization causes organisms to appear erroneously primitive by distorting evolutionary trees. Sci Rep 3:2545

A journal article with 3 authors

Reece SE, Drew DR, Gardner A (2008) Sex ratio adjustment and kin discrimination in malaria parasites. Nature 453:609–614

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Turchin P, Oksanen L, Ekerholm P, et al (2000) Are lemmings prey or predators? Nature 405:562–565

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dvorak R, Lhotka C (2013) Celestial Dynamics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

McGowan BL, Palmer RT, Wood JL, Hibbler DF (2016) Black Men in the Academy: Narratives of Resiliency, Achievement, and Success. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Rouan D (2015) Ablation. In: Gargaud M, Irvine WM, Amils R, et al (eds) Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 28–28

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 the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Nearly A Third Of All Seafood Is Mislabeled, But This Could Be Good For Sustainability. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/nearly-a-third-of-all-seafood-is-mislabeled-but-this-could-be-good-for-sustainability/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1978) The Indian Self-Determination Act: Many Obstacles Remain. 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

Parhad A (2015) Energy scavenging using piezoelectric sensors to power in pavement intelligent vehicle detection systems. 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

Vecsey G (2009) In Defense of His Old School. New York Times SP10

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 the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1678-5878
ISSN (online)	1806-3691
Scope	Mechanical Engineering