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

Benniston, Andrew. 2013. “Chemistry. Corralling Positively Charged Molecular Radicals.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339 (6118): 404–405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gómez, Pedro, and Angus Buckling. 2011. “Bacteria-Phage Antagonistic Coevolution in Soil.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6025): 106–109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yazdanbakhsh, Maria, Peter G. Kremsner, and Ronald van Ree. 2002. “Allergy, Parasites, and the Hygiene Hypothesis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5567): 490–494.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Galindo-Cuspinera, Veronica, Marcel Winnig, Bernd Bufe, Wolfgang Meyerhof, and Paul A. S. Breslin. 2006. “A TAS1R Receptor-Based Explanation of Sweet ‘Water-Taste.’” Nature 441 (7091): 354–357.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight, James G. 2017. Rules of Thumb for Petroleum Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pizzuti, Clara, Marylyn D. Ritchie, and Mario Giacobini, eds. 2009. Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics: 7th European Conference, EvoBIO 2009 Tübingen, Germany, April 15-17, 2009 Proceedings. Vol. 5483. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

May, Wolfgang, José Júlio Alferes, and Ricardo Amador. 2005. “Active Rules in the Semantic Web: Dealing with Language Heterogeneity.” In Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web: First International Conference, RuleML 2005, Galway, Ireland, November 10-12, 2005. Proceedings, edited by Asaf Adi, Suzette Stoutenburg, and Said Tabet, 30–44. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Jupiter’s Largest Moon Gets Mapped For the First Time.” 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. 2001. Army Training: Improvements Are Needed in 5-Ton Truck Driver Training and Supervision. GAO-01-436. 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

Carpenter, Kelly J. 2017. “The Relationship between School Leadership Practices And School Climate.” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: 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

Poniewozik, James. 2016. “In the Better of Two Hereafters, but Still Crabby About It.” New York Times, September 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benniston 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Benniston 2013; Gómez and Buckling 2011).

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

Two authors: (Gómez and Buckling 2011)
Three authors: (Yazdanbakhsh, Kremsner, and van Ree 2002)
4 or more authors: (Galindo-Cuspinera et al. 2006)

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