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

Manasse, H.R., Jr (2005) Public health. Conscientious objection and the pharmacist. Science 308(5728), 1558–1559.

A journal article with 2 authors

Makinoshima, H. & Glickman, M.S. (2005) Regulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell envelope composition and virulence by intramembrane proteolysis. Nature 436(7049), 406–409.

A journal article with 3 authors

Soares, L., Parisi, M. & Bonini, N.M. (2014) Axon injury and regeneration in the adult Drosophila. Sci. Rep. 4, 6199.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun, Q.-Q., Wang, L.-H., Yang, W., Zhou, P., Wang, P.-F., Ding, S.-J. & Zhang, D.W. (2013) Atomic scale investigation of a graphene nano-ribbon based high efficiency spin valve. Sci. Rep. 3, 2921.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doldi, L. (2005) Validation of Communications Systems with SDL. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bosch, P., Gabelaia, D. & Lang, J. (eds.) (2009) Logic, Language, and Computation: 7th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2007, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 1-5, 2007. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Andreeva, E., Mennink, B. & Preneel, B. (2011) Security Reductions of the Second Round SHA-3 Candidates. In: Information Security: 13th International Conference, ISC 2010, Boca Raton, FL, USA, October 25-28, 2010, Revised Selected Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ed. by M. Burmester, G. Tsudik, S. Magliveras, & I. Ilić), 39–53. 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) Scientists Edge Closer To Curing Peanut Allergies. 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 (1999) Acquisition Reform: NASA’s Internet Service Improves Access to Contracting Information. 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

Seyed Jalali Aghdam, S.M. (2015) Silica aerogel, an alternative to micromachined air gap for thermal insulation of microheaters. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Schwirtz, M. (2017) One Surprise Is Already Clear in the German Elections: No Russian Meddling.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Manasse, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Makinoshima & Glickman, 2005; Manasse, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Makinoshima & Glickman, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al., 2013)

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