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

Brasaemle DL (2006) Cell biology. A metabolic push to proliferate. Science 313:1581–1582

A journal article with 2 authors

Burch CL, Chao L (2000) Evolvability of an RNA virus is determined by its mutational neighbourhood. Nature 406:625–628

A journal article with 3 authors

Immerzeel WW, van Beek LPH, Bierkens MFP (2010) Climate change will affect the Asian water towers. Science 328:1382–1385

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nelson LJ, Treskes P, Howie AF, et al (2013) Profiling the impact of medium formulation on morphology and functionality of primary hepatocytes in vitro. Sci Rep 3:2735

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

zur Hausen H (2006) Infections Causing Human Cancer. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Mohs WF (2015) Heat and Mass Transfer in the Melting of Frost. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrara SD (2013) Causal Value and Causal Link. In: Ferrara SD, Boscolo-Berto R, Viel G (eds) Malpractice and Medical Liability: European State of the Art and Guidelines. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 93–107

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

Andrew D (2016) How Dogs Are Really Affected By Fireworks – And What You Can Do To Help. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-dogs-are-really-affected-by-fireworks-and-what-you-can-do-to-help/. 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 (2008) Aviation Weather: FAA Is Reevaluating Services at Key Centers; Both FAA and the National Weather Service Need to Better Ensure Product Quality. 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

Lucky-Medford L (2010) A gendered approach to synaesthesia using the poetry of John Keats and Emily Dickinson. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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 (2010) Coach Follows His Father While Leading His Way. New York Times B11

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