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American Society of Mechanical Engineers Citation Generator

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What an American Society of Mechanical Engineers reference looks like

American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a numeric style: sources are cited with a bracketed or superscript number in the order they first appear, and the reference list is numbered to match.

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Journal article

[1] Babonis, L. S., and Martindale, M. Q., 2022, “A Novel Regulatory Gene Network in Cnidarians,” PNAS, 119(19), p. e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119.

Book

[1] Kuhn, T. S., 1970, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press.

Web page

[1] IPCC, 2021, “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.” [Online]. Available: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/. [Accessed: 15-July-2026].

Journal article with 26 authors

[1] Harris, C. R., Millman, K. J., van der Walt, S. J., Gommers, R., Virtanen, P., Cournapeau, D., Wieser, E., Taylor, J., Berg, S., Smith, N. J., Kern, R., Picus, M., Hoyer, S., van Kerkwijk, M. H., Brett, M., Haldane, A., del Río, J. F., Wiebe, M., Peterson, P., Gérard-Marchant, P., Sheppard, K., Reddy, T., Weckesser, W., Abbasi, H., Gohlke, C., and Oliphant, T. E., 2020, “Array Programming with NumPy,” Nature, 585(7825), pp. 357–362. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers at a glance

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Used mainly in engineering.
In the text, the first source is cited as [1].
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
First names are shortened to initials.
DOIs are printed as links (https://doi.org/...).
Web pages include the date you accessed them.
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
The style file was last updated in November 2023.

The guide this style follows: asme.org

How American Society of Mechanical Engineers compares with ACM SIG Proceedings ("et al." for 3+ authors)

Where American Society of Mechanical Engineers differs:

For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.

The same journal article in ACM SIG Proceedings ("et al." for 3+ authors)

[1] Babonis, L.S. and Martindale, M.Q. 2022. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS. 119, 19 (May 2022), e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119.

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