How to format your references using the European Journal of Engineering Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Engineering Education. 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

Abbott, Alison. 2002. “A Physical Response to Architecture.” Nature 420 (6912): 126.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brisson, Jennifer A., and Sergey V. Nuzhdin. 2008. “Rarity of Males in Pea Aphids Results in Mutational Decay.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5859): 58.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gonsamo, Alemu, Jing M. Chen, and Chaoyang Wu. 2013. “Citizen Science: Linking the Recent Rapid Advances of Plant Flowering in Canada with Climate Variability.” Scientific Reports 3: 2239.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Körding, Elmar, Michael Rupen, Christian Knigge, Rob Fender, Vivek Dhawan, Matthew Templeton, and Tom Muxlow. 2008. “A Transient Radio Jet in an Erupting Dwarf Nova.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5881): 1318–1320.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis, T. Gene. 2010. Java® and Mac OS® X. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Campos, Javier, and Boudewijn R. Haverkort, eds. 2015. Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 12th International Conference, QEST 2015, Madrid, Spain, September 1-3, 2015, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2015. Vol. 9259. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ebeling, W., and S. M. Gusein-Zade. 2006. “Indices of Vector Fields and 1-Forms on Singular Varieties.” In Global Aspects of Complex Geometry, edited by Fabrizio Catanese, Hélène Esnault, Alan T. Huckleberry, Klaus Hulek, and Thomas Peternell, 129–169. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 European Journal of Engineering Education.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “This Designer’s Project Shows How Genetic Material Could Be Exploited By Biotechnology.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2013. Biomedical Research: NIH Should Assess the Impact of Growth in Indirect Costs on Its Mission. GAO-13-760. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fisher, Evan. 2012. “Suffering God.” Doctoral dissertation, Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Hollander, Sophia. 2000. “Navratilova Loves This.” New York Times, September 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2002; Brisson and Nuzhdin 2008).

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

Two authors: (Brisson and Nuzhdin 2008)
Three authors: (Gonsamo, Chen, and Wu 2013)
4 or more authors: (Körding et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Engineering Education
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Eng. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0304-3797
ISSN (online)	1469-5898
Scope	General Engineering Education