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]

Venema L. Schrödinger’s mousetrap. Part 3. Nature 2005;433:463.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang T, Overgaard J. Ecology. The heartbreak of adapting to global warming. Science 2007;315:49–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bento G, Ogawa A, Sommer RJ. Co-option of the hormone-signalling module dafachronic acid-DAF-12 in nematode evolution. Nature 2010;466:494–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Joh HM, Choi JY, Kim SJ, Chung TH, Kang T-H. Effect of additive oxygen gas on cellular response of lung cancer cells induced by atmospheric pressure helium plasma jet. Sci Rep 2014;4:6638.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Svensson H. Schrägkabelbrücken. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Noguet D, Moessner K, Palicot J, editors. Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks: 11th International Conference, CROWNCOM 2016, Grenoble, France, May 30 - June 1, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 172. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Carrera Á, Iglesias CA. Improving Diagnosis Agents with Hybrid Hypotheses Confirmation Reasoning Techniques. In: Cossentino M, Kaisers M, Tuyls K, Weiss G, editors. Multi-Agent Systems: 9th European Workshop, EUMAS 2011, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 14-15, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 48–62.

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

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Hale T. Nike’s “Back To The Future II” Self-Lacing Trainers Are Coming In November. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nikes-back-to-the-future-ii-selflacing-trainers-are-coming-in-november/ (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. Major Factors Inhibit Expansion of the School Breakfast Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Deolikar PP. Lecture Video Search Engine Using Hadoop MapReduce. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Liptak A, Walsh MW. Top Court Will Decide Puerto Rico Debt Cases. New York Times 2015:B3.

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