How to format your references using the Engineering Structures citation style

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

[1]

Joiner S. OPTICS: The Internet of Tomorrow. Science 2000;290:1907–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Okamoto S, Millis AJ. Electronic reconstruction at an interface between a Mott insulator and a band insulator. Nature 2004;428:630–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sander R, Crutzen PJ, von Glasow R. Comment on “Reactions at interfaces as a source of sulfate formation in sea-salt particles” (II). Science 2004;303:628; author reply 628.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kirsch DG, Santiago PM, di Tomaso E, Sullivan JM, Hou W-S, Dayton T, et al. p53 controls radiation-induced gastrointestinal syndrome in mice independent of apoptosis. Science 2010;327:593–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stone R, Gutiérrez-Albilla JD. A Companion to Luis Buñuel. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Shull F, Singer J, Sjøberg DIK, editors. Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering. London: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fujimoto S, Ishikawa A, Mizuno T, Watanabe T. Are Firms that Are Awarded More Patents More Productive? In: Abergel F, Aoyama H, Chakrabarti BK, Chakraborti A, Ghosh A, editors. Econophysics and Data Driven Modelling of Market Dynamics, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 129–42.

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 Structures.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. South Pacific Island Uninhabited For 600 Years Is Drowning In Plastic. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/south-pacific-island-uninhabited-for-600-years-is-drowning-in-plastic/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Comments on Proposed FPR Subpart. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Thompson MC. Autonomy in occupational health nursing: An application of Abbott’s Theory of Professions. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2008.

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]

Kenigsberg B. Naughty Boy: Mommy Issues Explain a Lot. New York Times 2016:C1.

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 Structures
Abbreviation	Eng. Struct.
ISSN (print)	0141-0296
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering