How to format your references using the Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education 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

Gaffan, D. 2005. “Neuroscience. Widespread cortical networks underlie memory and attention.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 309 (5744): 2172–2173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ramesh, K. V., and P. Goswami. 2014. “Assessing reliability of regional climate projections: the case of Indian monsoon.” Scientific reports, 4: 4071.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berg, R. W., A. Alaburda, and J. Hounsgaard. 2007. “Balanced inhibition and excitation drive spike activity in spinal half-centers.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 315 (5810): 390–393.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, M., K.-H. Leung, S. Lin, D. S.-H. Chan, D. W. J. Kwong, C.-H. Leung, and D.-L. Ma. 2014. “A colorimetric chemosensor for Cu²⁺ ion detection based on an iridium(III) complex.” Scientific reports, 4: 6794.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Werner, M. 2015. Global Displacements. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wanninger, A., ed. 2015. Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 5: Ecdysozoa III: Hexapoda. 1st ed. 2015. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jansson, D., A. Medvedev, H. Axelson, and D. Nyholm. 2015. “Stochastic Anomaly Detection in Eye-Tracking Data for Quantification of Motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease.” Signal and Image Analysis for Biomedical and Life Sciences, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, edited by C. Sun, T. Bednarz, T. D. Pham, P. Vallotton, and D. Wang, 63–82. 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 Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2016. “Athletes Play Sports Better When Reminded They’re Going To Die One Day.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/athletes-play-sports-better-when-reminded-theyre-going-to-die-one-day/.

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. 2005. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Long-standing Financial Management Challenges Threaten the Agency’s Ability to Manage Its Programs. 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

Motala, S. 2009. “Siblings caring for elderly parents with dementia.” 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

Kelly, S. R. 2012. “Good Neighbors, Bad Border.” New York Times, November 27, 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gaffan 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gaffan 2005; Ramesh and Goswami 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ramesh and Goswami 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Abbreviation	J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract.
ISSN (print)	1052-3928
ISSN (online)	1943-5541
Scope	Strategy and Management Industrial relations Civil and Structural Engineering