How to format your references using the Research in Engineering Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Engineering Design. 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

Gomez N (2015) Climate science: Small glacier has big effect on sea-level rise. Nature 526:510–512

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawaguchi S, Ng DTW (2011) Cell biology. Sensing ER stress. Science 333:1830–1831

A journal article with 3 authors

Egholm DL, Knudsen MF, Sandiford M (2013) Lifespan of mountain ranges scaled by feedbacks between landsliding and erosion by rivers. Nature 498:475–478

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kyutoku M, Nakagami H, Koriyama H, et al (2013) Inhibition of neointima formation through DNA vaccination for apolipoprotein(a): a new therapeutic strategy for lipoprotein(a). Sci Rep 3:1600

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Albright RD (2013) Death of the Chesapeake. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Andò B, Siciliano P, Marletta V, Monteriù A (eds) (2015) Ambient Assisted Living: Italian Forum 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Sagarin R, Pauchard A (2012) Using Technology to Expand Our Observational Senses. In: Pauchard A (ed) Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC, pp 63–73

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 Research in Engineering Design.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Why Men And Women Can’t Agree On The Perfect Temperature. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-men-and-women-cant-agree-on-the-perfect-temperature/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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) U.S. Launch Enterprise: Acquisition Best Practices Can Benefit Future Efforts. 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

Obiedat M (2015) Incrementally Sorted Lattice Data Structures. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Kanter J (2016) Bucking Resistance, Canada and E.U. Sign Trade Deal. New York Times A3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gomez 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kawaguchi and Ng 2011; Gomez 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kawaguchi and Ng 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kyutoku et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Engineering Design
Abbreviation	Res. Eng. Des.
ISSN (print)	0934-9839
ISSN (online)	1435-6066
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering Architecture