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

Elitzur, M. 2005. “Astronomy. Masers in the sky.” Science, 309 (5731): 71–72.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forterre, Y., and J. Dumais. 2011. “Materials science. Generating helices in nature.” Science, 333 (6050): 1715–1716.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell, A., P. Wei, and W. A. Lim. 2015. “Oscillatory stress stimulation uncovers an Achilles’ heel of the yeast MAPK signaling network.” Science, 350 (6266): 1379–1383.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lam, Y. A., T. G. Lawson, M. Velayutham, J. L. Zweier, and C. M. Pickart. 2002. “A proteasomal ATPase subunit recognizes the polyubiquitin degradation signal.” Nature, 416 (6882): 763–767.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Breitmaier, E. 2005. Vom NMR-Spektrum zur Strukturformel organischer Verbindungen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Burger, W. 2008. Digital Image Processing: An Algorithmic Introduction using Java. Texts in Computer Science, (M. J. Burge, ed.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Reed, B. M., and E. Uchendu. 2008. “Controlled Rate Cooling.” Plant Cryopreservation: A Practical Guide, B. M. Reed, ed., 77–92. New York, NY: 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

Andrew, E. 2015. “Turning The Tables: Using Genetic Mutations To Fix Nature’s Problems.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/turning-tables-using-genetic-mutations-fix-nature-s-problems/.

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. 2016. Information Technology: Improved Implementation of Reform Law Is Critical to Better Manage Acquisitions and Operations. 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

Talice, K. W. 2017. “An Assessment of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Leadership Competencies.” Doctoral dissertation. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Kelly, D. A. 2004. “36 Hours | Portsmouth, N.H.” New York Times, August 6, 2004.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elitzur 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Elitzur 2005; Forterre and Dumais 2011).

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

Two authors: (Forterre and Dumais 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lam et al. 2002)

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