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

Mira-Perez, J. 2000. Spanish university study ignores research. Nature, 404, 222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crombie, A.T. and Murrell, J.C. 2014. Trace-gas metabolic versatility of the facultative methanotroph Methylocella silvestris. Nature, 510, 148–151.

A journal article with 3 authors

Elf, J., Li, G.-W. and Xie, X.S. 2007. Probing transcription factor dynamics at the single-molecule level in a living cell. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316, 1191–1194.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nimmo, F., Spencer, J.R., Pappalardo, R.T. and Mullen, M.E. 2007. Shear heating as the origin of the plumes and heat flux on Enceladus. Nature, 447, 289–291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gustafsson, F. 2001. Adaptive Filtering and Change Detection.

An edited book

Hirschfeld, J.W.P. 2016. General Galois Geometries, 1st ed. 2016. Thas, J. A. (ed.). Springer Monographs in Mathematics.

A chapter in an edited book

Hannallah, R.S. 2008. Pediatric perioperative management. In: Twersky, R. S. and Philip, B. K. (eds) Handbook of Ambulatory Anesthesia. 115–143.

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. 2014. Pure Antimalarial Medications Synthesized From Plant Waste Products. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/pure-antimalarial-medications-synthesized-plant-waste-products/.

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. 2001. FTS2001: Transition Challenges Jeopardize Program Goals. GAO-01-289.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kalinec-Craig, C. 2012. A Case Study of Four Latina/o Pre-Service Teachers in Learning to Teach Mathematics for Understanding and Integrate a Child’s out-of-School Mathematical Knowledge and Experiences. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona.

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

Sisario, B. 2016. Green Day Is No. 1. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mira-Perez 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Mira-Perez 2000; Crombie and Murrell 2014).

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

Two authors: (Crombie and Murrell 2014)
Three or more authors: (Nimmo et al. 2007)

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