How to format your references using the Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Urban and Environmental 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

Pollard, T.D. (2001) Genomics, the cytoskeleton and motility. Nature 409(6822), 842–843.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pollard, P.J. & Ratcliffe, P.J. (2009) Cancer. Puzzling patterns of predisposition. Science 324(5924), 192–194.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kane Dickson, V., Pedi, L. & Long, S.B. (2014) Structure and insights into the function of a Ca(2+)-activated Cl(-) channel. Nature 516(7530), 213–218.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Motokawa, R., Endo, H., Yokoyama, S., Nishitsuji, S., Kobayashi, T., Suzuki, S. & Yaita, T. (2014) Collective structural changes in vermiculite clay suspensions induced by cesium ions. Sci. Rep. 4, 6585.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paret, D. & Huon, J.-P. (2017) Secure Connected Objects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Plaat, A., van den Herik, J. & Kosters, W. (eds.) (2015) Advances in Computer Games: 14th International Conference, ACG 2015, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 1-3, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Cai, K. & Wonham, W.M. (2016) Case Study: Production Cell. In: Supervisor Localization: A Top-Down Approach to Distributed Control of Discrete-Event Systems Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (ed. by W. M. Wonham), 103–126. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Urban and Environmental Engineering.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016) How Hurricanes Affect Climate Change. 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 (1991) Global Positioning System: Production Should Be Limited Until Receiver Reliability Problems Are Resolved. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Wahid, R. (2012) Quality of life of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pilon, M. (2013) The Dazzle of Neon.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pollard, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Pollard, 2001; Pollard & Ratcliffe, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Pollard & Ratcliffe, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Motokawa et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Urban Environ. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1982-3932
Scope	Environmental Engineering Urban Studies