How to format your references using the Engineering citation style

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

[1]

Bray D. Molecular networks: the top-down view. Science 2003;301:1864–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hochedlinger K, Jaenisch R. Nuclear reprogramming and pluripotency. Nature 2006;441:1061–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ambrose KV, Koppenhöfer AM, Belanger FC. Horizontal gene transfer of a bacterial insect toxin gene into the Epichloë fungal symbionts of grasses. Sci Rep 2014;4:5562.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Terai M, Izumiyama-Shimomura N, Aida J, Ishikawa N, Sawabe M, Arai T, et al. Association of telomere shortening in myocardium with heart weight gain and cause of death. Sci Rep 2013;3:2401.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Holzman G CVT VTS De, Raffel T CVT VTS Su. Surgical Patient Care for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Keller C, Wiberg M, Ågerfalk PJ, Eriksson Lundström JSZ, editors. Nordic Contributions in IS Research: Third Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2012, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 17–20, 2012. Proceedings. vol. 124. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chai J, Carter JP. Soil-Cement Columns. In: Carter JP, editor. Deformation Analysis in Soft Ground Improvement, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 173–234.

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 Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Gecko-Style Climbing Pads Allow A Man To Climb A Glass Wall. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/gecko-style-climbing-pads-allow-man-climb-glass-wall/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Information Technology: Continued Improvements in Investment Oversight and Management Can Yield Billions in Savings. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bailey CN. The influence of gardens on resilience in older adults living in a continuing care community. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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

[1]

Hubbard B, Fisher I. President Puts Saudis at Core Of Peace Effort. New York Times 2017:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Engineering
Abbreviation	Engineering (Beijing)
ISSN (print)	2095-8099
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Computer Science Energy Engineering and Power Technology General Engineering Environmental Engineering Materials Science (miscellaneous)