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

Cole-Hamilton, D. J. 2010. “Chemistry. Janus catalysts direct nanoparticle reactivity.” Science, 327 (5961): 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rambold, A. S., and J. Lippincott-Schwartz. 2011. “Cell biology. SevERing mitochondria.” Science, 334 (6053): 186–187.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aizen, M. A., M. Sabatino, and J. M. Tylianakis. 2012. “Specialization and rarity predict nonrandom loss of interactions from mutualist networks.” Science, 335 (6075): 1486–1489.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuo, H.-C., S. Hui, J. Choi, F. O. Asiegbu, J. P. T. Valkonen, and Y.-H. Lee. 2014. “Secret lifestyles of Neurospora crassa.” Sci. Rep., 4: 5135.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morrison, T. J. 2000. Functional Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lowenthal, F., and L. Lefebvre (Eds.). 2014. Language and Recursion. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ye, C., and L. Kou. 2012. “Discussion on Certain Problems and Countermeasures on Expansion of Management Advisory Services of Accounting Company in China.” Advances in Electronic Engineering, Communication and Management Vol.2: Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Electronic Engineering, Communication and Management (EECM 2011), held on December 24–25, 2011, Beijing, China, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, D. Jin and S. Lin, eds., 25–32. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Surveying Engineering.

Blog post

Hale, T. 2016. “Watch Indian Locals Save A Leopard From Drowning.” 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. 1974. Restructured Neighborhood Youth Corps Out-of-School Program in Urban Areas. 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

Munchel, B. F. 2015. “Exploratory Study of Counseling Professionals’ Attitudes Toward Distance Clinical Supervision.” Doctoral dissertation. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Cooper, M. 2017. “Fixing Geffen Hall? Ask Ohio.” New York Times, October 17, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cole-Hamilton 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cole-Hamilton 2010; Rambold and Lippincott-Schwartz 2011).

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

Two authors: (Rambold and Lippincott-Schwartz 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kuo 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