How to format your references using the Construction and Building Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Construction and Building Materials. 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]

B.D. Gates, Materials science. Flexible electronics, Science 323 (2009) 1566–1567.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.B. Rupert, A.R. Ferré-D’Amaré, Crystal structure of a hairpin ribozyme-inhibitor complex with implications for catalysis, Nature 410 (2001) 780–786.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Nielsen, Y. Yuzenkova, N. Zenkin, Mechanism of eukaryotic RNA polymerase III transcription termination, Science 340 (2013) 1577–1580.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L.M. Mirica, M. Vance, D.J. Rudd, B. Hedman, K.O. Hodgson, E.I. Solomon, T.D.P. Stack, Tyrosinase reactivity in a model complex: an alternative hydroxylation mechanism, Science 308 (2005) 1890–1892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Minoli, A Networking Approach to Grid Computing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

C. Foss, J.W. Gray, Z. Whalen, eds., Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Janocha, Piezoelectric Drives, in: E. Kallenbach, H.-D. Stölting, W. Amrhein (Eds.), Handbook of Fractional-Horsepower Drives, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 317–345.

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 Construction and Building Materials.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Do Vitamin D Supplements Really Prevent Cold And Flu Infections?, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vitamind-d-supplements-prevent-cold-flu-infections/ (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, Central Artery/Tunnel Project, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.C. French, A Case against E-Waste: Where One Country’s Trash is (Not) Another Country’s Treasure: Developing National E-Waste Legislation to Regulate E-Waste Exportation, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2012.

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]

M.D. Shear, M. Apuzzo, Trump Fires Comey Amid Russia Inquiry, New York Times (2017) 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	Construction and Building Materials
Abbreviation	Constr. Build. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0950-0618
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Building and Construction General Materials Science