How to format your references using the Engineering Geology citation style

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

Wadman, M., 2005. Disappointment in slow-down for biomedical funding. Nature 433, 559.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolfe, M.S., Kopan, R., 2004. Intramembrane proteolysis: theme and variations. Science 305, 1119–1123.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palmer, M.J., Fukuyama, F., Relman, D.A., 2015. SCIENCE GOVERNANCE. A more systematic approach to biological risk. Science 350, 1471–1473.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Misra, S., Puertollano, R., Kato, Y., Bonifacino, J.S., Hurley, J.H., 2002. Structural basis for acidic-cluster-dileucine sorting-signal recognition by VHS domains. Nature 415, 933–937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Buchstaller, I., 2013. Quotatives. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Mödersheim, S., Palamidessi, C. (Eds.), 2012. Theory of Security and Applications: Joint Workshop, TOSCA 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 31 - April 1, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Borcoci, E., Pinto, A., Mehaoua, A., Fang, L., Wang, N., 2008. Resource Management and Signalling Architecture of a Hybrid Multicast Service for Multimedia Distribution, in: Pavlou, G., Ahmed, T., Dagiuklas, T. (Eds.), Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services: 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2008, Samos Island, Greece, September 22-26, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 39–51.

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 Geology.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Calcium Supplements May Increase The Risk Of Heart Disease, Study Finds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/calcium-supplements-may-increase-risk-heart-disease/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1992. NASA Certification of Funds (No. AFMD-93-30ML). 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

Comorau, N., 2009. Postcolonial refashionings: Reading forms, reading novels (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Saslow, L., 2006. In Suffolk, a Plan to Keep Emergency Volunteers. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadman, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Wadman, 2005; Wolfe and Kopan, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Wolfe and Kopan, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Misra et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Engineering Geology
Abbreviation	Eng. Geol.
ISSN (print)	0013-7952
Scope	Geology Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology