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

Hobson, J.A. (2005) Sleep is of the brain, by the brain and for the brain. Nature 437(7063), 1254–1256.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dekkers, M.P.J. & Barde, Y.-A. (2013) Developmental biology. Programmed cell death in neuronal development. Science 340(6128), 39–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kicheva, A., Cohen, M. & Briscoe, J. (2012) Developmental pattern formation: insights from physics and biology. Science 338(6104), 210–212.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Amelin, Y., Krot, A.N., Hutcheon, I.D. & Ulyanov, A.A. (2002) Lead isotopic ages of chondrules and calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions. Science 297(5587), 1678–1683.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laycock, J. & Meeran, K. (2012) Integrated Endocrinology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Liu, X. (2013) Temperature and Humidity Independent Control (THIC) of Air-conditioning System. (ed. by Y. Jiang & T. Zhang). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kono, M. & Škorić, M.M. (2010) Nonlinear Interactions in Plasmas. In: Nonlinear Physics of Plasmas Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (ed. by M. Skoric), 113–149. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Andrew, E. (2015) Messenger Spacecraft Detects Ancient Magnetic Field On Mercury. 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 (2003) Electronic Government: Progress in Promoting Adoption of Smart Card Technology. 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

Turpin-Padberg, S. (2017) Effects of Elementary Teacher Preparation and Support on Retention. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Braffet, K. (2016) Wonder Women in Manhattan.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hobson, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Hobson, 2005; Dekkers & Barde, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Dekkers & Barde, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Amelin et al., 2002)

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