How to format your references using the Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice. 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

Quadir, I. Z. 2012. “Education. Entrepreneurship training for the developing world.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 335 (6075): 1445–1446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maslin, M. A., and S. J. Burns. 2000. “Reconstruction of the Amazon Basin effective moisture availability over the past 14,000 years.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 290 (5500): 2285–2287.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wible, B., J. Mervis, and N. S. Wigginton. 2014. “The global supply chain. Rethinking the global supply chain. Introduction.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 344 (6188): 1100–1103.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Damschen, E. I., N. M. Haddad, J. L. Orrock, J. J. Tewksbury, and D. J. Levey. 2006. “Corridors increase plant species richness at large scales.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 313 (5791): 1284–1286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Etten, W. C. 2006. Introduction to Random Signals and Noise. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Long, S., and B. S. Dhillon, eds. 2015. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Man–Machine–Environment System Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. 1st ed. 2015. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Llorente, B. 2016. “Regulation of Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Photosynthetic Organs.” Carotenoids in Nature: Biosynthesis, Regulation and Function, Subcellular Biochemistry, edited by C. Stange, 141–160. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice.

Blog post

Andrews, R. 2016. “Earthquakes Can Trigger Aftershocks In Faults Hundreds Of Kilometers Away.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earthquakes-trigger-aftershocks-faults-hundreds-kilometers-away/.

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. 1997. Status of Information Needed to Complete Financial Audit of the District of Columbia’s Dedicated Highway Fund for Fiscal Year 1996. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cruz, W. 2009. “Extended services post reunification to enhance parent-child attachments: A grant proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kanter, J., and N. Kitsantonis. 2017. “Eurozone Agrees to Greece Debt Talks in Exchange for Bailout Payments.” New York Times, February 20, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Quadir 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Maslin and Burns 2000; Quadir 2012).

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

Two authors: (Maslin and Burns 2000)
Three or more authors: (Damschen et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice
ISSN (print)	1949-1190
ISSN (online)	1949-1204
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering