How to format your references using the Alexandria Engineering Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Alexandria Engineering Journal. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

[1]

R.R. Breaker, Natural and engineered nucleic acids as tools to explore biology, Nature 432 (2004) 838–845.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.L. Niehoff, R. Rhodes, Ideas about the development of violent behavior, Science 290 (2000) 1093c–5c.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.K. Whittier, A.C. Hengge, J.P. Loria, Conformational motions regulate phosphoryl transfer in related protein tyrosine phosphatases, Science 341 (2013) 899–903.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Scorrano, S.A. Oakes, J.T. Opferman, E.H. Cheng, M.D. Sorcinelli, T. Pozzan, S.J. Korsmeyer, BAX and BAK regulation of endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+: a control point for apoptosis, Science 300 (2003) 135–139.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Sato, D.M. Kammen, B. Duan, M. Macuha, Z. Zhou, J. Wu, M. Tariq, S.A. Asfaw, Smart Grid Standards, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

T. Malone, Adapting War Horse: Cognition, the Spectator, and a Sense of Play, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.-M. Meynard, Innovating in cropping and farming systems, in: E. Coudel, H. Devautour, C.T. Soulard, G. Faure, B. Hubert (Eds.), Renewing Innovation Systems in Agriculture and Food: How to Go towards More Sustainability?, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, 2013: pp. 89–108.

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 Alexandria Engineering Journal.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Want Your Kids To Learn Another Language? Teach Them Code, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/want-your-kids-learn-another-language-teach-them-code/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Slotting Fees: Effort to Study the Use of These Payments in the Grocery Industry, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Papacostaki, Under the black sun, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2010.

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

[1]

K. Feeney, For Future Iron Chefs, More Places to Learn, New York Times (2010) NJ13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Alexandria Engineering Journal
Abbreviation	Alex. Eng. J.
ISSN (print)	1110-0168
Scope	General Engineering