How to format your references using the Journal of Surveying Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Surveying Engineering. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Glaeser, E. 2011. “Cities, productivity, and quality of life.” Science, 333 (6042): 592–594.

A journal article with 2 authors

Domcke, W., and A. L. Sobolewski. 2003. “Chemistry. Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of photoacidity.” Science, 302 (5651): 1693–1694.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kirichok, Y., G. Krapivinsky, and D. E. Clapham. 2004. “The mitochondrial calcium uniporter is a highly selective ion channel.” Nature, 427 (6972): 360–364.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Park, D.-H., C. J. Han, Y.-G. Shul, and J.-H. Choy. 2014. “Avatar DNA nanohybrid system in chip-on-a-phone.” Sci. Rep., 4: 4879.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramirez, J. 2011. Handbook of Corporate Equity Derivatives and Equity Capital Markets. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Borkar, V. S. 2012. Hamiltonian Cycle Problem and Markov Chains. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, (V. Ejov, J. A. Filar, and G. T. Nguyen, eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ergin, N., G. Yoruk, and O. Ozdemir. 2014. “Production of $$\mathrm{Ni}_{3}$ Ni 3 Al and $\mathrm{Ti}_{3}$$ Ti 3 Al Based Coating by Using Pressure Assisted Combustion Synthesis.” International Multidisciplinary Microscopy Congress: Proceedings of InterM, Antalya, Turkey, October 10–13, 2013, Springer Proceedings in Physics, E. K. Polychroniadis, A. Y. Oral, and M. Ozer, eds., 27–32. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Surveying Engineering.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2017. “Almost A Third Of New FDA-Approved Pharmaceuticals Have Post-Trial Safety Events.” 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. 2012. Organizational Transformation: Enterprise Architecture Value Needs to Be Measured and Reported. 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

Tan, S. W. 2013. “A pedagogical approach to selected études from Étude en douze exercices, S.136 and Études d ’exécution transcendante, S.139 by Franz Liszt.” Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Oestreich, J. R. 2016. “Fond Paean Kicks Off a High-Profile Run.” 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 (Glaeser 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Domcke and Sobolewski 2003; Glaeser 2011).

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

Two authors: (Domcke and Sobolewski 2003)
Three or more authors: (Park et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Surveying Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Surv. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0733-9453
ISSN (online)	1943-5428
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering