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

Gasparini, N. M. (2014). Earth science: A fresh look at river flow. Nature, 513(7519), 490–491.

A journal article with 2 authors

Paul, W. E., & Mage, R. G. (2000). Elvin A. Kabat (1914-2000). Nature, 407(6802), 316.

A journal article with 3 authors

Velarde, E., Ezcurra, E., & Anderson, D. W. (2013). Seabird diets provide early warning of sardine fishery declines in the Gulf of California. Scientific Reports, 3, 1332.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Du, J., Zhou, Y., Su, X., Yu, J. J., Khan, S., Jiang, H., Kim, J., Woo, J., Kim, J. H., Choi, B. H., He, B., Chen, W., Zhang, S., Cerione, R. A., Auwerx, J., Hao, Q., & Lin, H. (2011). Sirt5 is a NAD-dependent protein lysine demalonylase and desuccinylase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6057), 806–809.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakus, G. J. (2007). Quantitative Analysis of Marine Biological Communities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kuro-o, M. (Ed.). (2012). Endocrine FGFs and Klothos (Vol. 728). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Banks, R., Khomenko, V., & Steggles, L. J. (2011). Modeling Genetic Regulatory Networks. In I. Koch, W. Reisig, & F. Schreiber (Eds.), Modeling in Systems Biology: The Petri Net Approach (pp. 73–100). 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 International Journal of Engineering Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 7). Why Brontosaurus Is No Longer A Dirty Word For Dinosaur Hunters. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-brontosaurus-no-longer-dirty-word-dinosaur-hunters/

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). Intermodal Transportation: A Variety of Factors Influence Airport-Intercity Passenger Rail Connectivity (GAO-13-691). 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

Allen, M. W. (2017). Popular Culture and War in the Vietnam Era [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Kelly, C. (2014, May 3). In Estate Planning, Family Isn’t Always First. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gasparini, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gasparini, 2014; Paul & Mage, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Paul & Mage, 2000)
Three authors: (Velarde et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Du et al., 2011)

About the journal

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

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