How to format your references using the Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements. 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 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]

Dalton R. Golf course threatens to leave hole in fossil records. Nature 2001;412:572.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vanorio T, Kanitpanyacharoen W. ROCK PHYSICS. Rock physics of fibrous rocks akin to Roman concrete explains uplifts at Campi Flegrei Caldera. Science 2015;349:617–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Deitsch KW, Calderwood MS, Wellems TE. Malaria. Cooperative silencing elements in var genes. Nature 2001;412:875–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Prosperi MCF, Yin L, Nolan DJ, Lowe AD, Goodenow MM, Salemi M. Empirical validation of viral quasispecies assembly algorithms: state-of-the-art and challenges. Sci Rep 2013;3:2837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Molino Sr. LN. Emergency Incident Management Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Brian É. The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth: A Dialogue between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology. vol. 4. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pendergast JM, Ward JL, de Pontet SB. The Special Value of Independent Directors to the Family Business. In: Ward JL, Pontet SB de, editors. Building a Successful Family Business Board: A Guide for Leaders, Directors, and Families, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2011, p. 35–52.

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 Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Bilingual Chimps Can Grunt “Apple” in Two Languages. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bilingual-chimps-can-grunt-apple-two-languages/ (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. FAA Staffing: FAA’s Definition of Its Controller Work Force Should Be Revised. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rivera C. The Role of Privacy, Brand Labeling, and Cost on Condom Procurement: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Assess a University Policy. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

Kishkovsky S. Major Russian TV Station Is Accused of Censorship. New York Times 2006:C3.

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	Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements
Abbreviation	Eng. Anal. Bound. Elem.
ISSN (print)	0955-7997
Scope	General Engineering Analysis Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics