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

Ball, P. 2011. Crisis response: The new history. Nature, 480, 447–448.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ehrlich, P.R. and Kennedy, D. 2005. Sustainability. Millennium assessment of human behavior. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309, 562–563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pan, B., Xiong, Y. and Steitz, T.A. 2010. How the CCA-adding enzyme selects adenine over cytosine at position 76 of tRNA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330, 937–940.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Broecker, W., Barker, S., Clark, E., Hajdas, I., Bonani, G. and Stott, L. 2004. Ventilation of the glacial deep Pacific Ocean. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306, 1169–1172.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn-Deinstrop, E. 2006. Dünnschicht-Chromatographie.

An edited book

Guo, Y. (ed.). 2013. Selected Topics in Micro/Nano-Robotics for Biomedical Applications.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirschel, E.H. and Weiland, C. 2009. Aerothermodynamic Design Problems of Winged Airbreathing Vehicles. In: Weiland, C. (ed.) Selected Aerothermodynamic Design Problems of Hypersonic Flight Vehicles. 129–209.

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

Andrews, R. 2016. Brand New T. Rex Fossil Is One Of The ‘Most Significant Specimens’ Ever Found. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brand-new-trex-fossil-significant-specimens-ever-found/.

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. 1995. Law Enforcement Block Grant Awards. HEHS-95-169R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Allen, M.W. 2017. Popular Culture and War in the Vietnam Era. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Charkes, J.S. 2009. Scrambling to Enroll More Preschoolers. New York Times, NJ3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ball 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ehrlich and Kennedy 2005; Ball 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ehrlich and Kennedy 2005)
Three or more authors: (Broecker et al. 2004)

About the journal

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