Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Cite Sources
Resources for mechanical engineering and materials science
Citation Style
Instructors and commercially published journals will use different styles, so check the your instructor or a journal’s home page for the style they use.
- ASME Journals Digital Submission Tool Guidelines and Information: ReferencesLink to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers journal guidelines for formatting references
- The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Fields / by David Kmiec & Bernadette Longo. IEEE, 2017This is a link to IEEE’s manual for writing. Including their style for citing references
- IEEE Citation StyleThis is IEEE’s document which lays out their citation style. This is very similar to the style ASME uses in their documents.
- Materials Science Common Citation StyleThis is the citation style for the journal Microscopy and Microanalysis. This is a common style for materials science and engineering.
- Chicago Manual of Style OnlineProvides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age. Funded by donors to the Dean's Fund for Excellence in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
Online Citation Guides
Citation Management Tools
With these tools you can collect book and article citations from the library catalog and databases. Then using a plugin for MS Word, you can insert those citations into your paper in the appropriate format.
See the library guide, Manage Citations with Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote, on how to use these tools. The Library provides workshops and support for Zotero.
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ZoteroZotero is a free, open source citation management tool that comes as a Firefox extension or a standalone program for other browsers. It offers plugins for MS Word and Open Office so you can insert citations as you write your paper.