How to format your references using the Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal. 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]

J.J. Sloggett, Comment on “Invasive harlequin ladybird carries biological weapons against native competitors,” Science 341 (2013) 1342.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Cullimore, J. Dénarié, Plant sciences. How legumes select their sweet talking symbionts, Science 302 (2003) 575–578.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.G. Victor, J.C. House, S. Joy, Climate. A Madisonian approach to climate policy, Science 309 (2005) 1820–1821.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Matsumoto, T. Odani, K. Sada, M. Miyata, K. Tashiro, Intercalation of alkylamines into an organic polymer crystal, Nature 405 (2000) 328–330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Moreau, T. Adali, Blind Identification and Separation of Complex-Valued Signals, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

W. Han, Z. Huang, C. Hu, H. Zhang, L. Guo, eds., Web Technologies and Applications: APWeb 2014 Workshops, SNA, NIS, and IoTS, Changsha, China, September 5, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X. Gao, X. Ren, C. Zhang, C. Zhu, Online Identification and Robust Adaptive Control for Discrete Hysteresis Preisach Model, in: Y. Jia, J. Du, H. Li, W. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference: Volume 1, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016: pp. 41–49.

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 Science and Technology, an International Journal.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Elaborate Accessories Keep Predators Away From Decorator Crabs, IFLScience (2015).

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, Information Technology: FBI Is Building Management Capabilities Essential to Successful System Deployments, but Challenges Remain, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.I. Green, Caregiver wellness: An inquiry of health risks among frontline direct caregivers of the elderly and disabled, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2009.

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]

J. Williams, An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma, New York Times (2017) C4.

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 Science and Technology, an International Journal
ISSN (print)	2215-0986
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