How to format your references using the Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice citation style

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

Biemann, K. 2006. “Astrochemistry: Complex organic matter in Titan’s aerosols?” Nature, 444 (7118): E6; disccussion E6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsumoto, M., and O. Hikosaka. 2009. “Two types of dopamine neuron distinctly convey positive and negative motivational signals.” Nature, 459 (7248): 837–841.

A journal article with 3 authors

Georgellis, D., O. Kwon, and E. C. Lin. 2001. “Quinones as the redox signal for the arc two-component system of bacteria.” Science, 292 (5525): 2314–2316.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Saparov, B., C. Cantoni, M. Pan, T. C. Hogan, W. Ratcliff 2nd, S. D. Wilson, K. Fritsch, B. D. Gaulin, A. S. Sefat, and M. Tachibana. 2014. “Complex structures of different CaFe2As2 samples.” Sci. Rep., 4: 4120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Katsilambros, N., E. Diakoumopoulou, I. Ioannidis, S. Liatis, K. Makrilakis, N. Tentolouris, and P. Tsapogas. 2006. Diabetes in Clinical Practice. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kunze, H. 2012. Fractal-Based Methods in Analysis. (D. La Torre, F. Mendivil, and E. R. Vrscay, eds.). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Schmitz-Valckenberg, S., M. Fleckenstein, R. Spaide, and F. G. Holz. 2010. “Autofluorescence Imaging.” Medical Retina: Focus on Retinal Imaging, Essentials in Ophthalmology, F. G. Holz and R. Spaide, eds., 41–50. 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 Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2014. “How Remotely Controlled Mice Could Lead to Diabetes Treatment.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-remotely-controlled-mice-could-lead-diabetes-treatment/.

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. 1977. Problems Found With Government Acquisition and Use of Computers From November 1965 to December 1976. 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

Westgate, M. 2009. “La Boutique Fantasque: A full score edition for wind band.” Doctoral dissertation. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Hodgman, J. 2016. “Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman.” New York Times, October 28, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Biemann 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Biemann 2006; Matsumoto and Hikosaka 2009).

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

Two authors: (Matsumoto and Hikosaka 2009)
Three or more authors: (Saparov et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice
ISSN (print)	1949-1190
ISSN (online)	1949-1204
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering