How to format your references using the Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Folbre, N. (2008) Economics. When a commodity is not exactly a commodity. Science 319(5871), 1769–1770.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yelenik, S.G. & D’Antonio, C.M. (2013) Self-reinforcing impacts of plant invasions change over time. Nature 503(7477), 517–520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vais, H., Foskett, J.K. & Mak, D.-O.D. (2011) InsP3R channel gating altered by clustering? Nature 478(7368), E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ivanova, A.S., Tereshina, M.B., Ermakova, G.V., Belousov, V.V. & Zaraisky, A.G. (2013) Agr genes, missing in amniotes, are involved in the body appendages regeneration in frog tadpoles. Sci. Rep. 3, 1279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anthony, B., Boudnik, K., Adams, C., Shao, B., Lee, C. & Sasaki, K. (2016) Professional Hadoop®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Suzuki, K., Ishii, K., Sakurai, S. & Sasaki, S. (eds.) (2006) Plantation Technology in Tropical Forest Science. Springer, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Plaehn, O. (2005) Computing the Most Probable Parse for a Discontinuous Phrase Structure Grammar. In: New Developments in Parsing Technology Text, Speech and Language Technology (ed. by H. Bunt, J. Carroll, & G. Satta), 91–106. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 Urban and Environmental Engineering.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014) Ancient Carnivorous Leaves Discovered in Amber. 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 (2015) Airport Finance: Information on Funding Sources and Planned Capital Development. 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

Munn, J.E. (2017) Information Technology Certification Training Implementation: Exploratory Case Study of Air Force and Civilian Leaders Experiences. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Powell, M. (2017) The Provocateur President Meets Athletes’ Resolve.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Folbre, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Folbre, 2008; Yelenik & D’Antonio, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Yelenik & D’Antonio, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ivanova et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Urban Environ. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1982-3932
Scope	Environmental Engineering Urban Studies