How to format your references using the Research in Engineering Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Engineering Design. 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

Pielke R Jr (2011) John Marburger (1941-2011). Nature 476:284

A journal article with 2 authors

Greenberg DA, Jin K (2005) From angiogenesis to neuropathology. Nature 438:954–959

A journal article with 3 authors

Homer H, Gui L, Carroll J (2009) A spindle assembly checkpoint protein functions in prophase I arrest and prometaphase progression. Science 326:991–994

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ferguson NM, Keeling MJ, Edmunds WJ, et al (2003) Planning for smallpox outbreaks. Nature 425:681–685

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saghyan AS, Langer P (2016) Asymmetric Synthesis of Non&;#x02010;Proteinogenic Amino Acids. Wiley&;#x02010;VCH Verlag GmbH &;#38; Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Azar AT, Vaidyanathan S (eds) (2015) Computational Intelligence Applications in Modeling and Control. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kim JS, Werth VP (2014) Malar Erythema. In: Matucci-Cerinic M, Furst D, Fiorentino D (eds) Skin Manifestations in Rheumatic Disease. Springer, New York, NY, pp 37–45

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 Research in Engineering Design.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Watch This Moth-Controlled Robot Driving Around. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1977) Review of NASA Contract To Determine Procedures Used in Negotiating Noncompetitive Contracts. 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

Beck K (2011) Comparing high school physics standards: What is included and what is not. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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) ‘Suicide Squad’ Soundtrack Is No. 1 Again. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pielke 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Greenberg and Jin 2005; Pielke 2011).

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

Two authors: (Greenberg and Jin 2005)
Three or more authors: (Ferguson et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Engineering Design
Abbreviation	Res. Eng. Des.
ISSN (print)	0934-9839
ISSN (online)	1435-6066
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering Architecture