How to format your references using the Hybrid Methods in Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hybrid Methods in Engineering (HME). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Südhof, T. C., Neuroligins and Neurexins Link Synaptic Function to Cognitive Disease, Nature, vol. 455, no. 7215, pp. 903–11, October 16, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sekkal, W. and Zaoui, A., Nanoscale Analysis of the Morphology and Surface Stability of Calcium Carbonate Polymorphs, Scientific Reports, vol. 3, p. 1587, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dietz, H., Douglas, S. M. and Shih, W. M., Folding DNA into Twisted and Curved Nanoscale Shapes, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 325, no. 5941, pp. 725–30, August 7, 2009.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Li, L., Tu, F., Jin, L., Choy, W. C. H., Gao, Y. and Wang, J., Polarity Continuation and Frustration in ZnSe Nanospirals, Scientific Reports, vol. 4, p. 7447, December 15, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor, T. A., Guide to LEED® 2009 Estimating and Preconstruction Strategies, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Abdul-Wahab, S. A. Ed., Sick Building Syndrome: In Public Buildings and Workplaces, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, LIII, 591 p, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Lim, E. H. Y. and Lee, R. S. T., iJADE InfoSeeker: On Using Intelligent Context-Aware Agents for Retrieving and Analyzing Chinese Web Articles, in Computational Intelligence for Agent-Based Systems, R. S. T. Lee and V. Loia, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 127–53, 2007.

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 Hybrid Methods in Engineering.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., Galileo, Europe’s Answer To GPS, Just Went Online, IFLScience, December 19, 2016.

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, Federally Funded R&D Centers: Observations on DOD Actions To Improve Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-NSIAD-96-117, Mar. 5, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

DeSpain, L., The Relationship between Police Supervisor Training and Job Satisfaction Levels as Reported by Patrol Officers, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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

Branch, J., and Dolnick, S., Slush and Short Sleeves, New York Times, February 14, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Südhof, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Südhof, 2008; Sekkal et al., 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sekkal et al., 2013)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hybrid Methods in Engineering
ISSN (print)	1099-2391
ISSN (online)	2641-7359
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