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

Vastag B (2008) Assembly work. Nature 453:422–423

A journal article with 2 authors

Bromm V, Loeb A (2003) The formation of the first low-mass stars from gas with low carbon and oxygen abundances. Nature 425:812–814

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuch BB, Li H, Johnson AD (2008) Evolution of eukaryotic transcription circuits. Science 319:1797–1799

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bond DR, Holmes DE, Tender LM, Lovley DR (2002) Electrode-reducing microorganisms that harvest energy from marine sediments. Science 295:483–485

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arduin P-E, Grundstein M, Rosenthal-Sabroux C (2015) Information and Knowledge System. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Boju V (2007) The Math Problems Notebook. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Wahid SM, Mukherji A, Shrestha A (2016) Climate Change Adaptation, Water Infrastructure Development, and Responsive Governance in the Himalayas: The Case Study of Nepal’s Koshi River Basin. In: Tortajada C (ed) Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change: The Roles of Infrastructure and Governance in the Context of Adaptation. Springer, Singapore, pp 61–80

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

Andrews R (2017) Terrifying Robo-Priest Gives You Blessings And Haunts Your Dreams. 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 (1997) Strategic Mobility: Late Deliveries of Large, Medium Speed Roll-On/Roll-Off Ships. 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

Fine JG (2017) Magical Transformation or Illusion of Grandeur: The Development of Downtown West Palm Beach, 1985-2015. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Murphy MJO (2016) Friday File: When the Ball First Dropped on New Year’s Eve. New York Times C26

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vastag 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bromm and Loeb 2003; Vastag 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bromm and Loeb 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bond et al. 2002)

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

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