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

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

Zemlo T (2007) The evolution of life-sciences sales. Nature 447:230

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang J, Ferré-D’Amaré AR (2013) Co-crystal structure of a T-box riboswitch stem I domain in complex with its cognate tRNA. Nature 500:363–366

A journal article with 3 authors

Hirata A, Klein BJ, Murakami KS (2008) The X-ray crystal structure of RNA polymerase from Archaea. Nature 451:851–854

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zheng Y, Chaudhry A, Kas A, et al (2009) Regulatory T-cell suppressor program co-opts transcription factor IRF4 to control T(H)2 responses. Nature 458:351–356

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tsui JB-Y (2004) Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Reid J (2013) JavaScript Programmer’s Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Zhu Q (2015) Rainwater Harvesting Techniques for Irrigation. In: Zhu Q, Gould J, Li Y, Ma C (eds) Rainwater Harvesting for Agriculture and Water Supply. Springer, Singapore, pp 165–194

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 Mathematics.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) New 4D Ultrasound Scans Reveal Effects of Smoking on a Fetus. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1998) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Reserve Is Acting to Ensure Financial Institutions Are Fixing Systems, But Challenges Remain. 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

Bubert EA (2009) Highly extensible skin for a variable wing-span morphing aircraft utilizing pneumatic artificial muscle actuation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Markoff J (2016) Microsoft Spends Big to Build a Computer Straight Out of Science Fiction. New York Times B4

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	Journal of Engineering Mathematics
Abbreviation	J. Eng. Math.
ISSN (print)	0022-0833
ISSN (online)	1573-2703
Scope	General Engineering General Mathematics