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

Merrow, Martha. 2010. “Journal Club. A Chronobiologist Makes Sense of Circadian Dysfunction in Illness.” Nature 467 (7312): 135.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rodrigues, Alan R., and Clifford J. Tabin. 2013. “Developmental Biology. Deserts and Waves in Gene Expression.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6137): 1181–1182.

A journal article with 3 authors

Werner, Stephanie C., Anouck Ody, and François Poulet. 2014. “The Source Crater of Martian Shergottite Meteorites.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6177): 1343–1346.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Baldwin, Mark P., David B. Stephenson, David W. J. Thompson, Timothy J. Dunkerton, Andrew J. Charlton, and Alan O’Neill. 2003. “Stratospheric Memory and Skill of Extended-Range Weather Forecasts.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301 (5633): 636–640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Habart-Corlosquet, Marine, Jacques Janssen, and Raimondo Manca. 2013. VaR Methodology for Non-Gaussian Finance. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Alladi, Krishnaswami, Manjul Bhargava, David Savitt, and Pham Huu Tiep, eds. 2013. Quadratic and Higher Degree Forms. Vol. 31. Developments in Mathematics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dyshkant, Natalia. 2013. “Comparison of Point Clouds Acquired by 3D Scanner.” In Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 17th IAPR International Conference, DGCI 2013, Seville, Spain, March 20-22, 2013. Proceedings, edited by Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz, Maria-Jose Jimenez, and Belen Medrano, 47–58. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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. 2015. “The Future Is Bright, The Future Is … Quantum Dot Televisions.” 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. 1998. Telecommunications: Court Challenges to FCC’s Universal Service Order and Federal Support for Telecommunications for Schools and Libraries. RCED/OGC-98-172R. 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

Gustus, Christine H. 2017. “E-Mentoring an Educator in a State School for the Deaf: An Action Research Study.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Scheiber, Noam. 2017. “Arthur Cinader, J. Crew Founder Who Defined Preppy, Dies at 90.” New York Times, October 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Merrow 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Merrow 2010; Rodrigues and Tabin 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rodrigues and Tabin 2013)
Three authors: (Werner, Ody, and Poulet 2014)
4 or more authors: (Baldwin et al. 2003)

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