How to format your references using the Cement and Concrete Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cement and Concrete Research. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

P. Smaglik, To plan...or not to plan?, Nature 435 (2005) 381.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.Y. Kueh, T.J. Mitchison, Structural plasticity in actin and tubulin polymer dynamics, Science 325 (2009) 960–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Nowacki, J. Wookey, J.-M. Kendall, Deformation of the lowermost mantle from seismic anisotropy, Nature 467 (2010) 1091–1094.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Loose, K. Jensen, I. Rigoutsos, G. Stephanopoulos, A linguistic model for the rational design of antimicrobial peptides, Nature 443 (2006) 867–869.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

O. Hersent, J.-P. Petit, D. Gurle, IP Telephony, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

J.-M. Lachapelle, Patch Testing and Prick Testing: A Practical Guide Official Publication of the ICDRG, 3rd ed. 2012, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. David, S.J. Meltzer, Epigenetic Alterations as Contributors to the Pathogenesis, Detection, Prognosis and Treatment of Human Pre-invasive Neoplasia, in: R.C. Fitzgerald (Ed.), Pre-Invasive Disease: Pathogenesis and Clinical Management, Springer, New York, NY, 2011: pp. 41–63.

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 Cement and Concrete Research.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Bizarre Asteroid Has “Negative Gravity,” IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/physics/bizarre-asteroid-has-“negative-gravity”/ (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, IRS Website: Long-Term Strategy Needed to Improve Interactive Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Romer, WhatsUpDoc: A Patient Portal Technology, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

L. Saslow, A Law School Graduates From Junior High, New York Times (2007) LI2.

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	Cement and Concrete Research
Abbreviation	Cem. Concr. Res.
ISSN (print)	0008-8846
Scope	Building and Construction General Materials Science