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

Perk J (2013) Perspective: The power of disease prevention. Nature 493:S6

A journal article with 2 authors

Domcke W, Sobolewski AL (2003) Chemistry. Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of photoacidity. Science 302:1693–1694

A journal article with 3 authors

Ehrsson HH, Spence C, Passingham RE (2004) That’s my hand! Activity in premotor cortex reflects feeling of ownership of a limb. Science 305:875–877

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gordon MD, Dionne MS, Schneider DS, Nusse R (2005) WntD is a feedback inhibitor of Dorsal/NF-kappaB in Drosophila development and immunity. Nature 437:746–749

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bobrow J, Kohn E, Mondragon-Gilmore J, Eggenschwiler J (2009) CliffsNotes® Praxis I®: PPST®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pfaff DW, Kordon C, Chanson P, Christen Y (eds) (2008) Hormones and Social Behaviour. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lu W, Huang P (2010) Glycolytic Pathway as a Target for Tumor Inhibition. In: Bagley RG (ed) The Tumor Microenvironment. Springer, New York, NY, pp 91–118

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

Fang J (2014) Engineered Cartilage to Reconstruct Damaged Noses. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/engineered-cartilage-reconstruct-damaged-noses/. 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 (2003) District of Columbia: Performance Report Shows Continued Progress. 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

Jenkins D (2017) Leadership Best Practices for Female Executives in the Information Technology Industry. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Hansen K (2013) Even a Rock Star Has to Be Careful. New York Times B6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perk 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Domcke and Sobolewski 2003; Perk 2013).

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

Two authors: (Domcke and Sobolewski 2003)
Three or more authors: (Gordon et al. 2005)

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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