How to format your references using the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. 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

Kerp, H. 2002. Atmospheric CO2 from fossil plant cuticles. Nature, 415, 38.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sonenberg, N. and Pause, A. 2006. Signal transduction. Protein synthesis and oncogenesis meet again. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314, 428–429.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mayr, C., Hemann, M.T. and Bartel, D.P. 2007. Disrupting the pairing between let-7 and Hmga2 enhances oncogenic transformation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315, 1576–1579.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mikhael, J., Roth, J., Helden, L. and Bechinger, C. 2008. Archimedean-like tiling on decagonal quasicrystalline surfaces. Nature, 454, 501–504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackwood, N. 2014. Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants.

An edited book

Huerta, J., Schade, S. and Granell, C. (eds). 2014. Connecting a Digital Europe Through Location and Place. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography.

A chapter in an edited book

Ganter, B. and Obiedkov, S. 2016. Attribute exploration. In: Obiedkov, S. (ed.) Conceptual Exploration. 125–185.

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 Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Ivory And Saving Elephants: How Corruption Is Undermining Every Aspect Of Conservation. 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. 1982. Data Processing Costs Can Be Reduced at Army and Air Force Exchange Service. AFMD-83-17.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ziegler, R.T. 2017. The Impact of Strategic Planning Involvement on Employee Engagement in a Federal Public Health Agency. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Gregory Mankiw, N. 2017. Advice for Trump: Ask an Economist. New York Times, BU3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerp 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kerp 2002; Sonenberg and Pause 2006).

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

Two authors: (Sonenberg and Pause 2006)
Three or more authors: (Mikhael et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
ISSN (print)	1470-9236
ISSN (online)	2041-4803
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Geology Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology