How to format your references using the Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers. 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

Guenin, L. M. 2001. “Essays on Science and Society. Morals and Primordials.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 292 (5522): 1659–1660.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stocker, Thomas F., and Gian-Kasper Plattner. 2014. “Climate Policy: Rethink IPCC Reports.” Nature 513 (7517): 163–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghosh, Prosenjit, Carmala N. Garzione, and John M. Eiler. 2006. “Rapid Uplift of the Altiplano Revealed through 13C-18O Bonds in Paleosol Carbonates.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5760): 511–515.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Praag, Henriette van, Alejandro F. Schinder, Brian R. Christie, Nicolas Toni, Theo D. Palmer, and Fred H. Gage. 2002. “Functional Neurogenesis in the Adult Hippocampus.” Nature 415 (6875): 1030–1034.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rubin, Andrey B. 2014. Fundamentals of Biophysics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fisch, Gene S., and Jonathan Flint, eds. 2006. Transgenic and Knockout Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Krummenacher, Heinz. 2006. “Computer Assisted Early Warning – the FAST Example.” In Programming for Peace: Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention, edited by Robert Trappl, 71–80. Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 the Chinese Institute of Engineers.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2016. “Here’s What Happens When You Shine A Laser On The Blackest Material Ever Made.” IFLScience, IFLScience, October 21. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/heres-what-happens-when-you-shine-a-laser-on-the-blackest-material-ever-made/.

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. 1983. Observations on the National School Lunch Program’s Assessment, Improvement, and Monitoring System. 124037. 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

Sowers, Phyllis Anne. 2012. “‘Klanaheim’: Suburbia, Civic Identity, and the Second Ku Klux Klan.” 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

Kinsley, Michael. 2017. “The Upside to the Presidential Twitter Feed.” New York Times, April 29, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guenin 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Guenin 2001; Stocker and Plattner 2014).

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

Two authors: (Stocker and Plattner 2014)
Three authors: (Ghosh, Garzione, and Eiler 2006)
4 or more authors: (van Praag et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers
Abbreviation	J. Chin. Inst. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0253-3839
ISSN (online)	2158-7299
Scope	General Engineering