How to format your references using the Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers. 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

Banwart, Steve. 2011. “Save Our Soils.” Nature 474 (7350): 151–152.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belenky, Peter, and James J. Collins. 2011. “Microbiology. Antioxidant Strategies to Tolerate Antibiotics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6058): 915–916.

A journal article with 3 authors

Atwood, Jerry L., Leonard J. Barbour, and Agoston Jerga. 2002. “Storage of Methane and Freon by Interstitial van Der Waals Confinement.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5577): 2367–2369.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Alessandrini, Marco, Alessandro Micarelli, Agostino Chiaravalloti, Matteo Candidi, Ernesto Bruno, Barbara Di Pietro, Orazio Schillaci, and Marco Pagani. 2014. “Cortico-Subcortical Metabolic Correlates of Olfactory Processing in Healthy Resting Subjects.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harris, Maury. 2015. Inside the Crystal Ball. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jespers, Eric. 2007. Noetherian Semigroup Algebras. Edited by Jan Okniński. Vol. 7. Algebra and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kemp, Roelof, Nicholas Palmer, Thilo Kielmann, and Henri Bal. 2012. “Energy Efficient Information Monitoring Applications on Smartphones through Communication Offloading.” In Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services: Third International Conference, MobiCASE 2011, Los Angeles, CA, USA, October 24-27, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, edited by Joy Ying Zhang, Jarek Wilkiewicz, and Ani Nahapetian, 60–79. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. 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 the Chinese Institute of Engineers.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Biological Pacemaker Developed Using Gene Therapy.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1993. NASA: Major Challenges for Management. T-NSIAD-94-18. 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

Jackson, Michelle. 2013. “Creating Community in a Dual Immersion Program: A Grant Writing Project.” 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

Gordon, Michael R., and Eric Schmitt. 2017. “Russian Exercise On NATO Border Has U.S. on Alert.” New York Times, August 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Banwart 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Banwart 2011; Belenky and Collins 2011).

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

Two authors: (Belenky and Collins 2011)
Three authors: (Atwood, Barbour, and Jerga 2002)
4 or more authors: (Alessandrini et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers
Abbreviation	J. Chin. Inst. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0253-3839
ISSN (online)	2158-7299
Scope	General Engineering