How to format your references using the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management citation style

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

Adami, C., 2006. Computer science. What do robots dream of? Science 314, 1093–1094.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goyal, S., Zandstra, P.W., 2015. Stem cells: Chasing blood. Nature 518, 488–490.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mason, N., Biercuk, M.J., Marcus, C.M., 2004. Local gate control of a carbon nanotube double quantum dot. Science 303, 655–658.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Evrard, O., Chartin, C., Onda, Y., Lepage, H., Cerdan, O., Lefèvre, I., Ayrault, S., 2014. Renewed soil erosion and remobilisation of radioactive sediment in Fukushima coastal rivers after the 2013 typhoons. Sci. Rep. 4, 4574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gadd, K., 2016. TRIZ für Ingenieure. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Butz, M.V., Sigaud, O., Pezzulo, G., Baldassarre, G. (Eds.), 2007. Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Brains to Individual and Social Behavior, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bodo, G., 2008. Thermal Instabilities, in: Massaglia, S., Bodo, G., Mignone, A., Rossi, P. (Eds.), Jets From Young Stars III: Numerical MHD and Instabilities, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 153–162.

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 Journal of Engineering and Technology Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Nearby Star Has Three Planets Slightly Larger Than Earth, With One In Habitable Zone [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. State of the Airline Industry: Strategies for Addressing Financial and Competition Problems (No. T-RCED-93-21). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hirschy, M.A., 2015. Differences in usage of federally funded insurance options by women (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Saslow, L., 2009. Citing Taxes, Some Seek Fire District’s Demise. New York Times LI5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adami, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Adami, 2006; Goyal and Zandstra, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Goyal and Zandstra, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Evrard et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
Abbreviation	J. Eng. Technol. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0923-4748
Scope	Strategy and Management Industrial relations Information Systems and Management Management Science and Operations Research General Engineering