How to format your references using the Mathematics in Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematics in 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

Retallack GJ (2013) Ediacaran life on land. Nature 493: 89–92.

A journal article with 2 authors

Garczarek F, Gerwert K (2006) Functional waters in intraprotein proton transfer monitored by FTIR difference spectroscopy. Nature 439: 109–112.

A journal article with 3 authors

Borys NJ, Shafran E, Lupton JM (2013) Surface plasmon delocalization in silver nanoparticle aggregates revealed by subdiffraction supercontinuum hot spots. Sci Rep 3: 2090.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sgaier SK, Jha P, Mony P, et al. (2007) Public health. Biobanks in developing countries: needs and feasibility. Science 318: 1074–1075.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vilensky JA, Robertson WM, Suárez-Quian CA (2015) The Clinical Anatomy of the Cranial Nerves, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wierzbicki AP, Nakamori Y (Eds.) (2006) Creative Space: Models of Creative Processes for Knowledge Civilization Age, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lynn R, Chen A, Locks S, et al. (2015) Intelligent and Accessible Data Flow Architectures for Manufacturing System Optimization, In: Umeda S, Nakano M, Mizuyama H, et al. (Eds.), Advances in Production Management Systems: Innovative Production Management Towards Sustainable Growth: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2015, Tokyo, Japan, September 7-9, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 27–35.

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 Mathematics in Engineering.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2017) IFLScience, Here’s The Simple Trick To Look Your Best In Selfies From Your Smartphone, 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/heres-the-simple-trick-to-look-your-best-in-selfies-from-your-smartphone/.

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 (1981) Consistent Criteria Are Needed To Assess Small-Business Innovation Initiatives, 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

Dang H (2010) The cummulative incidence estimate versus the Kaplan Meier method in medical research.

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

Greenhouse L (2006) Detainee Case Hits on Limits Of Presidency. New York Times A22.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Mathematics in Engineering
ISSN (online)	2640-3501
Scope