How to format your references using the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids citation style

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

Arthur, C., 2013. Academics should not remain silent on hacking. Nature 504, 333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mogk, A., Bukau, B., 2010. Cell biology. When the beginning marks the end. Science 327, 966–967.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fradkin, E., Kivelson, S.A., Oganesyan, V., 2007. Physics. Electron nematic phase in a transition metal oxide. Science 315, 196–197.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, S.H., Fu, K.K., Hui, J.N., Richman, J.M., 2001. Noggin and retinoic acid transform the identity of avian facial prominences. Nature 414, 909–912.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

George, M.D., Donley, T.G., Preshaw, P.M., 2014. Ultrasonic Periodontal Debridement. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Felsenthal, D.S., Machover, M. (Eds.), 2012. Electoral Systems: Paradoxes, Assumptions, and Procedures, Studies in Choice and Welfare. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Cuevas-Vicenttín, V., Zechinelli-Martini, J.L., Vargas-Solar, G., 2006. Andromeda: Building e-Science Data Integration Tools, in: Bressan, S., Küng, J., Wagner, R. (Eds.), Database and Expert Systems Applications: 17th International Conference, DEXA 2006, Kraków, Poland, September 4-8, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 44–53.

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 Mechanics and Physics of Solids.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. Trees Are Much Better At Creating Clouds And Cooling The Climate Than We Thought [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2007. Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Restructuring Is Under Way, but Technical Challenges and Risks Remain (No. GAO-07-498). 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

Sindel, J., 2013. Vulnerability towards disordered eating in students registered in general education nutrition classes (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Mishan, L., 2017. The Taste of Darkness. New York Times M2166.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Arthur, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Arthur, 2013; Mogk and Bukau, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Mogk and Bukau, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
Abbreviation	J. Mech. Phys. Solids
ISSN (print)	0022-5096
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Condensed Matter Physics