How to format your references using the Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rock Mechanics and Rock 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

Kamionkowski M (2009) Astrophysics: Gravity ripples chased. Nature 460:964–965

A journal article with 2 authors

Levison HF, Morbidelli A (2003) The formation of the Kuiper belt by the outward transport of bodies during Neptune’s migration. Nature 426:419–421

A journal article with 3 authors

Desai BS, Chadha A, Cook B (2014) The stum gene is essential for mechanical sensing in proprioceptive neurons. Science 343:1256–1259

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Judson H, Hayward BE, Sheridan E, Bonthron DT (2002) A global disorder of imprinting in the human female germ line. Nature 416:539–542

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooney KA, Chappell JR, Callan RJ, Connally BA (2012) Veterinary Euthanasia Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Chen L (2010) Modeling Biomolecular Networks in Cells: Structures and Dynamics. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Medina M-J (2016) Pandemic Influenza Planning for the Mental Health Security of Survivors of Mass Deaths. In: Masys AJ (ed) Exploring the Security Landscape: Non-Traditional Security Challenges. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 79–100

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 Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) How Did This Bioluminescent Bug Get Its Glow? 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 (1999) Reagan National Airport: Capacity to Handle Additional Flights and Impact on Other Area Airports. 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

Cheung M (2010) An integrated change model in project management. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Poniewozik J (2016) Reviving a Snow Globe Town and Its Comfortable Nostalgia. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kamionkowski 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Levison and Morbidelli 2003; Kamionkowski 2009).

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

Two authors: (Levison and Morbidelli 2003)
Three or more authors: (Judson et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
Abbreviation	Rock Mech. Rock Eng.
ISSN (print)	0723-2632
ISSN (online)	1434-453X
Scope	Geology Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Civil and Structural Engineering General Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) General Engineering General Environmental Science