How to format your references using the Engineering citation style

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

Knowles SM. Intellectual property. Fixing the legal framework for pharmaceutical research. Science 2010;327:1083–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Häkkinen S, Rhines PB. Decline of subpolar North Atlantic circulation during the 1990s. Science 2004;304:555–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gravina B, Mellars P, Ramsey CB. Radiocarbon dating of interstratified Neanderthal and early modern human occupations at the Chatelperronian type-site. Nature 2005;438:51–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aung L-H-H, Yin R-X, Wu J-Z, Wu D-F, Wang W, Li H. Association between the MLX interacting protein-like, BUD13 homolog and zinc finger protein 259 gene polymorphisms and serum lipid levels. Sci Rep 2014;4:5565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kivy P. Once-Told Tales. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Xu H, Wang X, editors. Optimization and Control Methods in Industrial Engineering and Construction. vol. 72. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Iriondo I, Planet S, Socoró J-C, Alías F. Objective and Subjective Evaluation of an Expressive Speech Corpus. In: Chetouani M, Hussain A, Gas B, Milgram M, Zarader J-L, editors. Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: International Conference on Non-Linear Speech Processing, NOLISP 2007 Paris, France, May 22-25, 2007 Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 86–94.

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.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. New Polio Cases In Ukraine And Mali Don’t Mean The Vaccine Is Failing. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-polio-cases-ukraine-and-mali-don-t-mean-vaccine-failing/ (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. NASA Project Status Reports: Congressional Requirements Can Be Met, but Reliability Must Be Ensured. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Harris NS. The Impact of Action Learning Experience on Reflective Practice. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2012.

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]

Baker P. Forces He Could Not Control. New York Times 2017:BR11.

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
Abbreviation	Engineering (Beijing)
ISSN (print)	2095-8099
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Computer Science Energy Engineering and Power Technology General Engineering Environmental Engineering Materials Science (miscellaneous)