How to format your references using the Engineering Geology Special Publications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Engineering Geology Special Publications. 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. 2007. When the party’s over. Nature, 445, 13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knapp, S. and Mallet, J. 2003. Ecology. Refuting refugia? Science (New York, N.Y.), 300, 71–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Caro, E., Castellano, M.M. and Gutierrez, C. 2007. A chromatin link that couples cell division to root epidermis patterning in Arabidopsis. Nature, 447, 213–217.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jeong, D.W., Choi, W.S., et al. 2014. Dimensionality control of d-orbital occupation in oxide superlattices. Scientific reports, 4, 6124.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mead, D.E. 2013. Becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist.

An edited book

Diduch, D.R. and Brunt, L.M. (eds). 2014. Sports Hernia and Athletic Pubalgia: Diagnosis and Treatment.

A chapter in an edited book

Al-Baali, A.G.A.-G. and Farid, M.M. 2006. Thermal Sterilization Of Food In Cans. In: Farid, M. M. (ed.) Sterilization Of Food In Retort Pouches. Food Engineering Series, 45–92.

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 Special Publications.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. 2015. Scientists Have Genetically Engineered Micropigs To Sell As Pets. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-genetically-engineer-micropigs-sell-pets/.

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. 2006. Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs a Departmentwide Strategy for Pursuing Low-Cost, Responsive Tactical Space Capabilities. GAO-06-449.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim, E.H. 2010. A Personal Narrative of a Korean Immigrant to the United States: A Quest for Finding a Niche. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Smith, M. 2017. Minneapolis Police Chief Is Forced Out. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadman 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Knapp and Mallet 2003; Wadman 2007).

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

Two authors: (Knapp and Mallet 2003)
Three or more authors: (Jeong et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Engineering Geology Special Publications
ISSN (print)	0267-9914
ISSN (online)	2041-4730
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology