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

Moore, P. 2003. “Playing with the pieces.” Nature, 426 (6967): 725.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maceyka, M., and S. Spiegel. 2014. “Sphingolipid metabolites in inflammatory disease.” Nature, 510 (7503): 58–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, L., M.-L. Yin, and S. F. Liu. 2014. “Ag(x)@WO₃ core-shell nanostructure for LSP enhanced chemical sensors.” Sci. Rep., 4: 6745.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huismans, Y., A. Rouzée, A. Gijsbertsen, J. H. Jungmann, A. S. Smolkowska, P. S. W. M. Logman, F. Lépine, C. Cauchy, S. Zamith, T. Marchenko, J. M. Bakker, G. Berden, B. Redlich, A. F. G. van der Meer, H. G. Muller, W. Vermin, K. J. Schafer, M. Spanner, M. Y. Ivanov, O. Smirnova, D. Bauer, S. V. Popruzhenko, and M. J. J. Vrakking. 2011. “Time-resolved holography with photoelectrons.” Science, 331 (6013): 61–64.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson, J. L. 1997. Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Eisenbarth, G. S. (Ed.). 2011. Immunoendocrinology: Scientific and Clinical Aspects. Contemporary Endocrinology. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Turner, M. C., G. Herrmann, and I. Postlethwaite. 2007. “Anti-windup Compensation using a Decoupling Architecture.” Advanced Strategies in Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, S. Tarbouriech, G. Garcia, and A. H. Glattfelder, eds., 121–171. 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

Davis, J. 2015. “Scientists Create Biodegradable Computer Chips.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/biodegradable-computer-chips-step-closer/.

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. 1999. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of the Oil and Gas Industries. 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

Green, B. 2014. “Bullying of Individuals with Disabilities on a College Campus: A Qualitative Study.” 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

Wagner, J. 2016. “Dodgers Rally, Then Call Upon Their Ace in 9th to Advance.” New York Times, October 14, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Maceyka and Spiegel 2014; Moore 2003).

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

Two authors: (Maceyka and Spiegel 2014)
Three or more authors: (Huismans et al. 2011)

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