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

Kotliar, G. 2003. “Physics. Driving the electron over the edge.” Science, 302 (5642): 67–69.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mullins, C. B., and G. O. Sitz. 2008. “Chemistry. Taking a selective bite out of methane.” Science, 319 (5864): 736–737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fischer, J., J. Baumgartner, and C. Marschner. 2005. “Synthesis and structure of sila-adamantane.” Science, 310 (5749): 825.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aulanier, G., L. Golub, E. E. Deluca, J. W. Cirtain, R. Kano, L. L. Lundquist, N. Narukage, T. Sakao, and M. A. Weber. 2007. “Slipping magnetic reconnection in coronal loops.” Science, 318 (5856): 1588–1591.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu, J., and D. Tao. 2013. Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Perroud, T. 2013. Enterprise Architecture Patterns: Practical Solutions for Recurring IT-Architecture Problems. (R. Inversini, ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Takahashi, N., and T. Miyazaki. 2006. “INTERACTION BETWEEN A COLUMNAR VORTEX AND EXTERNAL TURBULENCE.” IUTAM Symposium on Elementary Vortices and Coherent Structures: Significance in Turbulence Dynamics: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at Kyoto International Community House, Kyoto, Japan, 26-28 October 2004, Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, S. Kida, ed., 31–38. 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 Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2016. “Now We Can Edit Life Itself, We Need To Ask How We Should Use Such Technology.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/now-we-can-edit-life-itself-we-need-to-ask-how-we-should-use-such-technology/.

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. 2003. Computer-Based Patient Records: Short-Term Progress Made, but Much Work Remains to Achieve a Two-Way Data Exchange Between VA and DOD Health Systems. 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

Herman, G. S. 2013. “Terahertz local oscillator via difference frequency generation in iii-v semiconductors using frequency stabilized lasers.” Doctoral dissertation. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Kishkovsky, S. 2003. “MOSCOW: THE BALLERINA SUES.” New York Times, October 27, 2003.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kotliar 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kotliar 2003; Mullins and Sitz 2008).

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

Two authors: (Mullins and Sitz 2008)
Three or more authors: (Aulanier et al. 2007)

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

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