How to format your references using the Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 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

Nye MJ (2002) Portraits of science. “The most versatile physicist of his generation.” Science 296:49–50

A journal article with 2 authors

Liberles SD, Buck LB (2006) A second class of chemosensory receptors in the olfactory epithelium. Nature 442:645–650

A journal article with 3 authors

Rudolph ML, Lekić V, Lithgow-Bertelloni C (2015) Viscosity jump in Earth’s mid-mantle. Science 350:1349–1352

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kang PJ, Sanson A, Lee B, Park HO (2001) A GDP/GTP exchange factor involved in linking a spatial landmark to cell polarity. Science 292:1376–1378

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott DW (2008) Color Atlas of Farm Animal Dermatology. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Jones JS (ed) (2013) Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: PSA, Biopsy and Beyond. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Moreira O, Corporaal H (2014) Resource Modeling and Compile Time Scheduling. In: Corporaal H (ed) Scheduling Real-Time Streaming Applications onto an Embedded Multiprocessor. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 77–116

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 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Scientist Spotlight: In Memoriam 2013. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientist-spotlight-memoriam-2013/. 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 (1990) Implementation of the Technology Transfer Act: A Preliminary Assessment. 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

Hill L (2015) Unique forms of knowledge and curriculum in hip-hop pedagogy. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Friel B (2010) Where Will the G.O.P. Go Digging? New York Times WK9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nye 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Nye 2002; Liberles and Buck 2006).

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

Two authors: (Liberles and Buck 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kang et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment
Abbreviation	Bull. Eng. Geol. Environ.
ISSN (print)	1435-9529
ISSN (online)	1435-9537
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology General Engineering Ocean Engineering General Environmental Science