How to format your references using the HKIE Transactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for HKIE Transactions. 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]

Ploegh HL. A lipid-based model for the creation of an escape hatch from the endoplasmic reticulum. Nature. 2007;448(7152):435–438.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gulev SK, Latif M. Ocean science: The origins of a climate oscillation. Nature. 2015;521(7553):428–430.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Robinson CV, Sali A, Baumeister W. The molecular sociology of the cell. Nature. 2007;450(7172):973–982.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Rogers LJ, Rigosi E, Frasnelli E, et al. A right antenna for social behaviour in honeybees. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2045.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Richards SA, Hollerton JC. Essential Practical NMR for Organic Chemistry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Ijioui R, Emmerich H, Ceyp M, et al., editors. Globalization 2.0: A Roadmap to the Future from Leading Minds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Costabello L. Error-Tolerant RDF Subgraph Matching for Adaptive Presentation of Linked Data on Mobile. In: Presutti V, d’Amato C, Gandon F, et al., editors. The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges: 11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 36–51.

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 HKIE Transactions.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Dark Matter Might Not Be As Dark As We Thought [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/dark-matter-not-so-dark/.

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. European Aeronautics: Strong Government Presence in Industry Structure and Research and Development Support. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994. Report No.: NSIAD-94-71. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dinneny PN. End of August [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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]

Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES. New York City’s Sconces. New York Times. 2016 Nov 18;RE10.

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	HKIE Transactions
ISSN (print)	1023-697X
ISSN (online)	2326-3733
Scope	General Engineering