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

Couzin-Frankel, J. 2014. “A lonely crusade.” Science, 344 (6186): 793–797.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cochella, L., and R. Green. 2005. “An active role for tRNA in decoding beyond codon:anticodon pairing.” Science, 308 (5725): 1178–1180.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gómez, J. M., M. Verdú, and F. Perfectti. 2010. “Ecological interactions are evolutionarily conserved across the entire tree of life.” Nature, 465 (7300): 918–921.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hesselbo, S. P., D. R. Grocke, H. C. Jenkyns, C. J. Bjerrum, P. Farrimond, Morgans Bell HS, and O. R. Green. 2000. “Massive dissociation of gas hydrate during a Jurassic oceanic anoxic event.” Nature, 406 (6794): 392–395.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt, P., R. Körber, and M. Coppers. 2003. Sieben und Siebmaschinen. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Wang, Q. J., and Y.-W. Chung (Eds.). 2013. Encyclopedia of Tribology. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Käläntär, K. 2014. “Backlights.” The Liquid Crystal Display Story: 50 Years of Liquid Crystal R&D that lead The Way to the Future, N. Koide, ed., 117–129. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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. “Watch Cheetah Give Birth To Four Cubs.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. 1992. Embedded Computer Systems: Significant Software Problems on C-17 Must Be Addressed. 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

Christian, T. M. 2012. “Under the Navajo stars: The intersection of mythic narratives, archaeology, and star ceilings.” Doctoral dissertation. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Bosman, J., A. Harmon, C. Hauser, J. Bidgood, and M. Astor. 2017. “Friends and Relatives Share Memories About the Las Vegas Shooting Victims.” New York Times, October 2, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Couzin-Frankel 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Cochella and Green 2005; Couzin-Frankel 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cochella and Green 2005)
Three or more authors: (Hesselbo et al. 2000)

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