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]

Dekker J. Gene regulation in the third dimension. Science 2008;319:1793–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mitra PP, Stark JB. Nonlinear limits to the information capacity of optical fibre communications. Nature 2001;411:1027–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yue J-D, Zhang Y-R, Fan H. Quantum-enhanced metrology for multiple phase estimation with noise. Sci Rep 2014;4:5933.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lin W, Frère CH, Karczmarski L, Xia J, Gui D, Wu Y. Phylogeography of the finless porpoise (genus Neophocaena): testing the stepwise divergence hypothesis in the northwestern Pacific. Sci Rep 2014;4:6572.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hahn A, Behle B, Lischewski D, Rein W. Produktionstechnische Praxis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2002.

An edited book

[1]

van Dijk P, Başkent D, Gaudrain E, de Kleine E, Wagner A, Lanting C, editors. Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Cognition in Normal and Impaired Hearing. vol. 894. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Babushkina D. F.H. Bradley’s Conception of the Moral Self: A New Reading. In: Mander WJ, Panagakou S, editors. British Idealism and the Concept of the Self, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016, p. 67–87.

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]

Davis J. Blood Test Could Detect Traumatic Brain Injury. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/blood-test-could-detect-traumatic-brain-injury/ (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. Youth with Autism: Federal Agencies Should Take Additional Action to Support Transition-Age Youth. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Eastwood JL. The effects of an interdisciplinary undergraduate human biology program on socioscientific reasoning, content learning, and understanding of inquiry. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 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]

Vecsey G. Indelible Name Added to a Roster of Regrets. New York Times 2011:D3.

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

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