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

Gewin V (2003) In search of the élite. Nature 426:713–717

A journal article with 2 authors

Todd JJ, Marois R (2004) Capacity limit of visual short-term memory in human posterior parietal cortex. Nature 428:751–754

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson B, Cole WW, Barrett SCH (2005) Botany: specialized bird perch aids cross-pollination. Nature 435:41–42

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rocha J, Coelho FJRC, Peixe L, et al (2014) Optimization of preservation and processing of sea anemones for microbial community analysis using molecular tools. Sci Rep 4:6986

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harrison A (2016) The Life of D. H. Lawrence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Misra KB (ed) (2008) Handbook of Performability Engineering. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Abdel-Khalek AM (2014) Religiosity and Well-Being in a Muslim Context. In: Kim-Prieto C (ed) Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–85

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

Andrew E (2014) Two-Faced Cat Dies Aged 15. 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 (1990) Special Education: Estimates of Handicapped Indian Preschoolers and Sufficiency of Services. 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

Swift I (2011) The Perceived Effect of Hidden Costs on the Operational Management of Information Technology Outsourcing: A Qualitative Study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Walsh MW, Robertson C (2011) Just Before Deadline, County in Alabama Delays Bankruptcy Move. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2003; Todd and Marois 2004).

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

Two authors: (Todd and Marois 2004)
Three or more authors: (Rocha et al. 2014)

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