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

Noller, H.F. 2005. RNA structure: reading the ribosome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309, 1508–1514.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vrabioiu, A.M. and Mitchison, T.J. 2006. Structural insights into yeast septin organization from polarized fluorescence microscopy. Nature, 443, 466–469.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeyl, C., Vanderford, T. and Carter, M. 2003. An evolutionary advantage of haploidy in large yeast populations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299, 555–558.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tou, W.I., Chang, S.-S., Lee, C.-C. and Chen, C.Y.-C. 2013. Drug design for neuropathic pain regulation from traditional Chinese medicine. Scientific reports, 3, 844.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blume, S.W. 2011. High Voltage Protection for Telecommunications.

An edited book

Paragios, N., Duncan, J. and Ayache, N. (eds). 2015. Handbook of Biomedical Imaging: Methodologies and Clinical Research.

A chapter in an edited book

White, S.M. 2005. Coronal Magnetic Field Measurements Through Gyroresonance Emission. In: Gary, D. E. and Keller, C. U. (eds) Solar and Space Weather Radiophysics: Current Status and Future Developments. 89–113.

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

Andrew, E. 2014. Parasitic Worm Discovered In Ancient Tomb. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/parasitic-worm-discovered-ancient-tomb/.

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. 1994. [Comments on Claim for Excess Valuation Charge]. B-254831.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Noll, R.T. 2009. Physician Acceptance of Computerized Physician Order Entry in Outpatient Settings: A Quantitative Analysis of Family Medicine within Maricopa County, Arizona. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University.

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. 2007. Town of Oyster Bay Seeks To Develop Waterfront Plan. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Noller 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Noller 2005; Vrabioiu and Mitchison 2006).

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

Two authors: (Vrabioiu and Mitchison 2006)
Three or more authors: (Tou et al. 2013)

About the journal

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