How to format your references using the Results in Engineering citation style

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

[1]

D. Nutt, Help luck along to find psychiatric medicines, Nature 515 (2014) 165.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Piotrowska, M. Zernicka-Goetz, Role for sperm in spatial patterning of the early mouse embryo, Nature 409 (2001) 517–521.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Van der Burg, J. Cass, D. Alais, Window of audio-visual simultaneity is unaffected by spatio-temporal visual clutter, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5098.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Wakui, Y. Eto, H. Benichi, S. Izumi, T. Yanagida, K. Ema, T. Numata, D. Fukuda, M. Takeoka, M. Sasaki, Ultrabroadband direct detection of nonclassical photon statistics at telecom wavelength, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4535.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G.M. Wrobel, E. Neil, International Advances in Adoption Research for Practice, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Z.P. Nagy, A.C. Varghese, A. Agarwal, eds., Practical Manual of In Vitro Fertilization: Advanced Methods and Novel Devices, Springer, New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Hanif, R.R.S. van Lon, N. Gui, T. Holvoet, Delegate MAS for Large Scale and Dynamic PDP: A Case Study, in: F.M.T. Brazier, K. Nieuwenhuis, G. Pavlin, M. Warnier, C. Badica (Eds.), Intelligent Distributed Computing V: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2011, Delft, The Netherlands – October 2011, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 23–33.

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 Results in Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Scientists Have Released An Enormous List Of Common Chemicals That Could Harm Brain Development, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/common-chemicals-place-us-children-at-high-risk-of-mental-disorders-say-scientists/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Unanswered Questions on Educating Handicapped Children in Local Public Schools, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.E. Kinney, Realtime controller tuning for periodic disturbance rejection with application to active noise control, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2009.

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

[1]

N.R. Kleinfield, Broken Boys, Thieves, Killers, and Now Escapees, New York Times (2015) A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Results in Engineering
ISSN (print)	2590-1230
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