How to format your references using the Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 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

Baker D (2000) A surprising simplicity to protein folding. Nature 405:39–42

A journal article with 2 authors

Cande SC, Stegman DR (2011) Indian and African plate motions driven by the push force of the Réunion plume head. Nature 475:47–52

A journal article with 3 authors

Soroceanu L, Akhavan A, Cobbs CS (2008) Platelet-derived growth factor-alpha receptor activation is required for human cytomegalovirus infection. Nature 455:391–395

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim J-H, Noe GT 2nd, McGill SA, et al (2013) Fermi-edge superfluorescence from a quantum-degenerate electron-hole gas. Sci Rep 3:3283

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lißner K, Rug W (2016) Der Eurocode 5 für Deutschland Eurocode 5: Bemessung und Konstruktion von Holzbauten. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany

An edited book

Osei-Bryson K-M, Ngwenyama O (eds) (2014) Advances in Research Methods for Information Systems Research: Data Mining, Data Envelopment Analysis, Value Focused Thinking. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Negrini P (2011) On a Definition of Total Stability for Continuous or Discrete Dynamical Systems. In: Salvadori L (ed) Stability Problems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 100–110

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 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Meditation may Alter Male and Female Brains Differently. 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 (1990) Preliminary Information on the Federal Government’s Response to Recent Natural Disasters. 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

Ward D (2014) Teaching with the End in Mind: A Teacher’s Life History as a Legacy of Educational Leaders. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Wasik JF (2017) How to Get Financial Advice in Your Best Interest. New York Times BU6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Baker 2000; Cande and Stegman 2011).

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

Two authors: (Cande and Stegman 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment
Abbreviation	Bull. Eng. Geol. Environ.
ISSN (print)	1435-9529
ISSN (online)	1435-9537
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology General Engineering Ocean Engineering General Environmental Science