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

Underwood, E. 2015. Neuroscience. A faster, brighter picture of brain cells in action. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350, 895.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baell, J. and Walters, M.A. 2014. Chemistry: Chemical con artists foil drug discovery. Nature, 513, 481–483.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zarrinpar, A., Park, S.-H. and Lim, W.A. 2003. Optimization of specificity in a cellular protein interaction network by negative selection. Nature, 426, 676–680.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zimmermann, K., Leffler, A., et al. 2007. Sensory neuron sodium channel Nav1.8 is essential for pain at low temperatures. Nature, 447, 855–858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brigo, D., Morini, M. and Pallavicini, A. 2013. Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding.

An edited book

Starke, K. and Gaestel, M. (eds). 2006. Molecular Chaperones in Health and Disease. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology.

A chapter in an edited book

Troscenko, E. 2016. With a Border Fence in the Backyard: Materialization of the Border in the Landscape and the Social Lives’ of Border People. In: Bringa, T. and Toje, H. (eds) Eurasian Borderlands: Spatializing Borders in the Aftermath of State Collapse. 87–106.

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. These Jellies Glide Through The Water By Coordinating Their Jets. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-jellies-glide-through-water-coordinating-their-jets/.

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. 1983. Query Regarding Department of Education Regulations. B-210733.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yahil, R.J. 2010. The Role of Interleukin-19 in Interleukin-10 Production by Regulatory Macrophages. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Poniewozik, J. 2017. It’s Dark Out There Among the Stars. New York Times, C15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Underwood 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Baell and Walters 2014; Underwood 2015).

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

Two authors: (Baell and Walters 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zimmermann 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