How to format your references using the International Journal of Engineering Science citation style

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

Cyranoski, D. (2000). Japan sets sights on success in nanotechnology. Nature, 408(6812), 624.

A journal article with 2 authors

Balskus, E. P., & Jacobsen, E. N. (2007). Asymmetric catalysis of the transannular Diels-Alder reaction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5845), 1736–1740.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finkel, T., Serrano, M., & Blasco, M. A. (2007). The common biology of cancer and ageing. Nature, 448(7155), 767–774.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Chan, C. S., Guzman, J. N., Ilijic, E., Mercer, J. N., Rick, C., Tkatch, T., Meredith, G. E., & Surmeier, D. J. (2007). “Rejuvenation” protects neurons in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease. Nature, 447(7148), 1081–1086.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (1998). Guidelines for Safe Warehousing of Chemicals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Guillard, V. (2013). Food Structure and Moisture Transfer: A Modeling Approach (C. Bourlieu & N. Gontard, Eds.; Vol. 8). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Datta, P. K., & Biswas, S. (2011). Combination Resonance Characteristics of a Composite Plate Having Damage Subjected to in-Plane Pulsating Load. In J. Náprstek, J. Horáček, M. Okrouhlík, B. Marvalová, F. Verhulst, & J. T. Sawicki (Eds.), Vibration Problems ICOVP 2011: The 10th International Conference on Vibration Problems (pp. 45–50). Springer Netherlands.

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 International Journal of Engineering Science.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, July 3). Oceans May Become Too Acidic For Animals To Smell Their Way Around. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oceans-may-become-too-acidic-for-animals-to-smell-their-way-around/

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. (1982). Evaluation of DOD Comments Re: DOD Instruction 5000.5X, Standard Instruction Set Architectures for Embedded Computers (B-199008). 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

Nauman, T. (2009). Digital soil-landscape classification for soil survey using ASTER satellite and digital elevation data in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Schwirtz, M. (2017, May 26). New York City Jails Take Another Blow: Respected Official Is Stepping Down. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Balskus & Jacobsen, 2007; Cyranoski, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Balskus & Jacobsen, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Chan et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Engineering Science
Abbreviation	Int. J. Eng. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0020-7225
Scope	General Engineering