How to format your references using the Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education 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

Glabe, C. 2006. “Biomedicine. Avoiding collateral damage in Alzheimer’s disease treatment.” Science, 314 (5799): 602–603.

A journal article with 2 authors

Getz, W. M., and J. O. Lloyd-Smith. 2006. “Comment on ‘On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects’ I.” Science, 311 (5764): 1100; author reply 1100.

A journal article with 3 authors

Venditti, C., A. Meade, and M. Pagel. 2011. “Multiple routes to mammalian diversity.” Nature, 479 (7373): 393–396.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, K.-M., E. Harjes, P. J. Gross, A. Fahmy, Y. Lu, K. Shindo, R. S. Harris, and H. Matsuo. 2008. “Structure of the DNA deaminase domain of the HIV-1 restriction factor APOBEC3G.” Nature, 452 (7183): 116–119.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guyader, J.-L. 2013. Vibration in Continuous Media. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Goldfarb, J. M. (Ed.). 2014. Third-Party Reproduction: A Comprehensive Guide. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rodrigues, E. R., and J. A. Achcar. 2013. “Some Counting Processes and Ozone Air Pollution.” Applications of Discrete-time Markov Chains and Poisson Processes to Air Pollution Modeling and Studies, SpringerBriefs in Mathematics, J. A. Achcar, ed., 79–89. 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 Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. “First Ever Reported Case Of Anxiety-Induced Déjà Vu Described.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/first-ever-reported-case-anxiety-induced-d-j-vu-described/.

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. 1994. Federal Judicial Space Follow-up. 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

Saha, P. 2008. “Application hardware-software co-design for reconfigurable computing systems.” 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

Herrman, J. 2016. “Who’s Too Young for an App? Musical.ly Testing the Limits.” New York Times, September 19, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Glabe 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Getz and Lloyd-Smith 2006; Glabe 2006).

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

Two authors: (Getz and Lloyd-Smith 2006)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Abbreviation	J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract.
ISSN (print)	1052-3928
ISSN (online)	1943-5541
Scope	Strategy and Management Industrial relations Civil and Structural Engineering