How to format your references using the Engineering Geology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Engineering Geology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Bromm, V., 2014. Astronomy. Imprint of an ancient conflagration. Science 345, 868–869.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vitetta, E.S., Ghetie, V.F., 2006. Immunology. Considering therapeutic antibodies. Science 313, 308–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Platt, T., Fuentes-Yaco, C., Frank, K.T., 2003. Marine ecology: Spring algal bloom and larval fish survival. Nature 423, 398–399.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Y., Shi, W., Li, X., Ma, H., 2013. Sensitive detection of ozone by a practical resorufin-based spectroscopic probe with extremely low background signal. Sci. Rep. 3, 2830.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Koch, S.N., Torres, S.M.F., Plumb, D.C., 2012. Canine and Feline Dermatology Drug Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Kano, T., 2006. Evoked Spinal Cord Potentials: An Illustrated Guide to Physiology, Pharmacology, and Recording Techniques. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Fardoun, H.M., Alghazzawi, D.M., López, S.R., Penichet, V.M.R., Gallud, J.A., 2012. Online Social Networks Impact in Secondary Education, in: Vittorini, P., Gennari, R., Marenzi, I., Prieta, F. de la, Rodríguez, J.M.C. (Eds.), International Workshop on Evidence-Based Technology Enhanced Learning, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 37–45.

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 Geology.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017. How Much Protein Do You Really Need? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-much-protein-do-you-really-need/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2016. High-Containment Laboratories: Actions Needed to Mitigate Risk of Potential Exposure and Release of Dangerous Pathogens (No. GAO-16-871T). 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

Powers, K.L., 2012. Real-time video streaming: Impact on maternal anxiety and the maternal-infant bond (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2016. Our Monster Sorority. New York Times SR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bromm, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bromm, 2014; Vitetta and Ghetie, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Vitetta and Ghetie, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Engineering Geology
Abbreviation	Eng. Geol.
ISSN (print)	0013-7952
Scope	Geology Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology