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

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

Kraus, V. B. 2014. “Osteoarthritis: The zinc link.” Nature, 507 (7493): 441–442.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hannon, G. J., and J. J. Rossi. 2004. “Unlocking the potential of the human genome with RNA interference.” Nature, 431 (7006): 371–378.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sawai, S., P. A. Thomason, and E. C. Cox. 2005. “An autoregulatory circuit for long-range self-organization in Dictyostelium cell populations.” Nature, 433 (7023): 323–326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Petukhova, L., M. Duvic, M. Hordinsky, D. Norris, V. Price, Y. Shimomura, H. Kim, P. Singh, A. Lee, W. V. Chen, K. C. Meyer, R. Paus, C. A. B. Jahoda, C. I. Amos, P. K. Gregersen, and A. M. Christiano. 2010. “Genome-wide association study in alopecia areata implicates both innate and adaptive immunity.” Nature, 466 (7302): 113–117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, C. 2014. An Introduction to LTE. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cao, T., E.-P. Lim, Z.-H. Zhou, T.-B. Ho, D. Cheung, and H. Motoda (Eds.). 2015. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 19th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2015, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 19-22, 2015, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gatrell, J. D., G. D. Bierly, and R. R. Jensen. 2012. “Graduate Degree Proposals.” Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science: Second Edition, G. D. Bierly and R. R. Jensen, eds., 45–49. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Environmental Engineering.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. 2017. “Physicists Test Entropy In A Non-Equilibrium System For The First Time.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/physicists-test-entropy-in-a-non-equilibrium-system-for-the-first-time/.

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. 2001. Social Security Administration: Information Systems Could Improve Processing Attorney Fee Payments in Disability Program. Washington, DC: 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

Cannon, M. P. 2013. “Cenozoic kinematics of the Little Pine fault, Santa Maria Basin, California.” Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Barry, E., and S. Kishkovsky. 2013. “Latest Twist at Bolshoi: Director Is Pushed Out.” New York Times, July 10, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kraus 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hannon and Rossi 2004; Kraus 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hannon and Rossi 2004)
Three or more authors: (Petukhova et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Eng. (New York)
ISSN (print)	0733-9372
ISSN (online)	1943-7870
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering