How to format your references using the Engineering Geology Special Publications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Engineering Geology Special Publications. 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

Lozier, M.S. 2010. Deconstructing the conveyor belt. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328, 1507–1511.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trinkle-Mulcahy, L. and Lamond, A.I. 2007. Toward a high-resolution view of nuclear dynamics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318, 1402–1407.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lim, M., Metzler, R. and Bar-Yam, Y. 2007. Global pattern formation and ethnic/cultural violence. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317, 1540–1544.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Waters, A.P., Mota, M.M., van Dijk, M.R. and Janse, C.J. 2005. Parasitology. Malaria vaccines: back to the future? Science (New York, N.Y.), 307, 528–530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Foote, M., Hillier, J., Mitchell-Wallace, K. and Jones, M. 2017. Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling.

An edited book

Antoniou, G., Grobelnik, M., Simperl, E., Parsia, B., Plexousakis, D., Leenheer, P.D. and Pan, J. (eds). 2011. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29-June 2, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

A chapter in an edited book

Ermolieva, T., Ermoliev, Y., Fischer, G., Jonas, M. and Makowski, M. 2010. Cost Effective and Environmentally Safe Emission Trading Under Uncertainty. In: Marti, K., Ermoliev, Y. and Makowski, M. (eds) Coping with Uncertainty: Robust Solutions. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 79–99.

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 Special Publications.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2016. Some Male Fiddler Crabs Trap Females In Order To Mate With Them. IFLScience.

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. 2007. Emergency Preparedness: Current Emergency Alert System Has Limitations, and Development of a New Integrated System Will Be Challenging. GAO-07-411.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beasley, C.A. 2010. Investigations of Redox-Labeled Silica and Gold Nanoparticles in Solution and as Films on Electrodes. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina.

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

Kenigsberg, B. 2017. They Call Us Monsters. New York Times, C11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lozier 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Trinkle-Mulcahy and Lamond 2007; Lozier 2010).

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

Two authors: (Trinkle-Mulcahy and Lamond 2007)
Three or more authors: (Waters et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Engineering Geology Special Publications
ISSN (print)	0267-9914
ISSN (online)	2041-4730
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology