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

Smaglik, P. 2005. “Closing the gap.” Nature, 433 (7023): 335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bishopp, A., and M. J. Bennett. 2015. “Plant biology: Seeing the wood and the trees.” Nature, 517 (7536): 558–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park, S., J. M. Vohs, and R. J. Gorte. 2000. “Direct oxidation of hydrocarbons in a solid-oxide fuel cell.” Nature, 404 (6775): 265–267.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Najman, Y., M. Pringle, L. Godin, and G. Oliver. 2001. “Dating of the oldest continental sediments from the Himalayan foreland basin.” Nature, 410 (6825): 194–197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cobb, K. 2008. The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Wenclawiak, B. W., M. Koch, and E. Hadjicostas (Eds.). 2010. Quality Assurance in Analytical Chemistry: Training and Teaching. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wachenfeld, S., S. Terlunen, and X. Jiang. 2010. “Robust 1-D Barcode Recognition on Camera Phones and Mobile Product Information Display.” Mobile Multimedia Processing: Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, X. Jiang, M. Y. Ma, and C. W. Chen, eds., 53–69. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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. 2016. “Why Are The Cassini Pictures Starless?” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-are-the-cassini-pictures-starless/.

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. 1976. Ways To Improve Management of Federally Funded Computerized Models. 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

Olsen, S. L. 2017. “A Year of Sin An Experiential Exhibition of Sin.” Doctoral dissertation. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Feeney, K. 2007. “Sublime Indian Sweets.” New York Times, January 14, 2007.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bishopp and Bennett 2015; Smaglik 2005).

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

Two authors: (Bishopp and Bennett 2015)
Three or more authors: (Najman et al. 2001)

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