How to format your references using the Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Modern Processes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Modern Processes. 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

Austin J (2006) Salary survey. U.S. life scientists report rising salaries and high job satisfaction. Science 314:842–847

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith MP, Harper DAT (2013) Earth science. Causes of the Cambrian explosion. Science 341:1355–1356

A journal article with 3 authors

Zanardi I, Zifarelli G, Pusch M (2013) An optical assay of the transport activity of ClC-7. Sci Rep 3:1231

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mora C, Chittaro PM, Sale PF, et al (2003) Patterns and processes in reef fish diversity. Nature 421:933–936

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibe OC (2013) Elements of Random Walk and Diffusion Processes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Maria ED, Micelli S (eds) (2005) On Line Citizenship: Emerging Technologies for European Cities. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Zeng J, Zhong X (2007) A Novel WiMAX Structure with Mesh Network. In: Krishnaswamy D, Pfeifer T, Raz D (eds) Real-Time Mobile Multimedia Services: 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2007, San José, USA, October 31 - November 2, 2007 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 50–63

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 Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Modern Processes.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Native Alaskans May Have Been Trading Metals With Asia Long Before European Contact. In: IFLScience. 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 (1997) Student Financial Aid Information: Systems Architecture Needed to Improve Programs’ Efficiency. 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

Colker JO (2008) A grounded theory approach to developing a theory of leadership through a case study of ShoreBank. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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 (2010) Mets Trot Out Reliever Of Last Resort. New York Times B9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Austin 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Austin 2006; Smith and Harper 2013).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Harper 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mora et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Modern Processes
Abbreviation	Mech. Adv. Mater. Mod. Process.
ISSN (online)	2198-7874
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