How to format your references using the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. 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

Liechty, J. 2012. Scientists and bankers - a new model army. Nature, 484, 143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barton, R.A. and Harvey, P.H. 2000. Mosaic evolution of brain structure in mammals. Nature, 405, 1055–1058.

A journal article with 3 authors

Croxall, J.P., Trathan, P.N. and Murphy, E.J. 2002. Environmental change and Antarctic seabird populations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297, 1510–1514.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wu, P., Lv, H., Peng, T., He, D. and Mu, S. 2014. Nano conductive ceramic wedged graphene composites as highly efficient metal supports for oxygen reduction. Scientific reports, 4, 3968.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mubarak, S. 2010. Construction Project Scheduling and Control.

An edited book

Salgueiro, C.A. 2016. Multiheme Cytochromes. Dantas, J. M. (ed.). SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science.

A chapter in an edited book

Sadowski, T. 2009. Non-Symmetric Thermal Shock In Ceramic Matrix Composite (Cmc) Materials. In: Borst, R. de and Sadowski, T. (eds) Lecture Notes on Composite Materials: Current Topics and Achievements. Solid Mechanics And Its Applications, 99–148.

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 Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2017. Interstellar Round Trip Could Return Samples From Earth-Like Exoplanet In 300 Years. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/space/interstellar-round-trip-could-return-samples-from-earthlike-exoplanet-in-300-years/.

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. 2014. Data Center Consolidation: Reporting Can Be Improved to Reflect Substantial Planned Savings. GAO-14-713.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wallace, D.R. 2006. A Comparative Analysis of a Conventional Versus a Computer-Assisted Technique for Identification of Mechanical Power Press Hazards. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University.

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

Barron, J. 2017. It’s Time to Retrieve Time’s Time Capsule. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Liechty 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Barton and Harvey 2000; Liechty 2012).

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

Two authors: (Barton and Harvey 2000)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
ISSN (print)	1470-9236
ISSN (online)	2041-4803
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Geology Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology