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

Gravitz L (2012) Vector control: The last bite. Nature 484:S26-7

A journal article with 2 authors

West JD, Bergstrom CT (2011) Psychology. Can ignorance promote democracy? Science 334:1503–1504

A journal article with 3 authors

Kurin-Csörgei K, Epstein IR, Orbán M (2005) Systematic design of chemical oscillators using complexation and precipitation equilibria. Nature 433:139–142

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chu L, Schmidt H, Pu J, et al (2014) Charge transport in ion-gated mono-, bi-, and trilayer MoS2 field effect transistors. Sci Rep 4:7293

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liphard KG (2014) Labormanagement. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Managi S (2009) The Economics of Sustainable Development: The Case of India. Springer US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Driscoll B, Gupta N, Vettor R, et al (2013) Loading Entities and Navigation Properties. In: Gupta N, Vettor R, Hirani Z, Tenny L (eds) Entity Framework 6 Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 129–181

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

Andrews R (2015) Why Is The Giant’s Causeway Hexagonal? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-columnar-basalt-almost-always-hexagonal/. 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 (2012) Slot-Controlled Airports: FAA’s Rules Could Be Improved to Enhance Competition and Use of Available Capacity. 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

Gonzales DS (2012) Identifying factors and quantifying their impact on transportation costs of pre-processes biomass. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Vecsey G (2011) Left on the Sideline as an Underdog Celebrates. New York Times D7

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