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]

S.L. Brantley, Geology. Understanding soil time, Science 321 (2008) 1454–1455.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.Z. Macosko, S.A. McCarroll, Genetics. Our fallen genomes, Science 342 (2013) 564–565.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Mihalcescu, W. Hsing, S. Leibler, Resilient circadian oscillator revealed in individual cyanobacteria, Nature 430 (2004) 81–85.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Hale, M.W. Makgoba, M.H. Merson, T.C. Quinn, D.D. Richman, S. Vella, F. Wabwire-Mangen, S. Wain-Hobson, R.A. Weiss, Mission now possible for AIDS fund, Nature 412 (2001) 271–272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Cumming, Private Equity, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

J. Kwak, R.H. Deng, Y. Won, G. Wang, eds., Information Security, Practice and Experience: 6th International Conference, ISPEC 2010, Seoul, Korea, May 12-13, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X. Shi, The Path Toward Mass Higher Education in China, in: J.C. Shin, G.A. Postiglione, F. Huang (Eds.), Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia: Strategy, Quality, and Challenges, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 63–88.

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, Huge Crater Mysteriously Appears In Siberia, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/huge-crater-mysteriously-appears-siberia/ (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, U.S. Aerospace Industry: Progress in Implementing Aerospace Commission Recommendations, and Remaining Challenges, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.D. Black, Franz Liszt’s “Via Crucis”: A summation of the composer’s styles and beliefs, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2014.

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]

D. Philipps, B. Hubbard, U.S. Soldier Who Survived Fatal Attack by a Jordanian Tells His Story, New York Times (2017) A6.

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