How to format your references using the Intelligent Buildings International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Intelligent Buildings International. 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

Carmody, J. 2000. “What If...?” Nature 406 (6794): 349.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ho, Wynn C. G., and Craig O. Heinke. 2009. “A Neutron Star with a Carbon Atmosphere in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant.” Nature 462 (7269): 71–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, Junil, Sang-Min Park, and Kwang-Hyun Cho. 2013. “Discovery of a Kernel for Controlling Biomolecular Regulatory Networks.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 2223.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, J. Will Koning, Ruth M. Brown, William C. Jordan, and Andrew F. G. Bourke. 2004. “Social Parasitism by Male-Producing Reproductive Workers in a Eusocial Insect.” Nature 430 (6999): 557–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Binnie, Chris. 2016. Linux Server Security. Indianapolis, IN, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cheng, Zhiming, Mark Wang, and Junhua Chen, eds. 2014. Urban China in the New Era: Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rott, Hans, and Sven Ove Hansson. 2014. “Safe Contraction Revisited.” In David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems, edited by Sven Ove Hansson, 35–70. Outstanding Contributions to Logic. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Intelligent Buildings International.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Chile’s Calbuco Volcano Erupts Without Warning. What Can We Expect Next?” IFLScience, IFLScience, April 27. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/chile-s-calbuco-volcano-erupts-without-warning-what-can-we-expect-next/.

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. 1985. Implementing the Small Business Innovation Development Act--The First 2 Years. RCED-86-13. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Liu, Huiguo. 2017. “Three Papers on the Sociology of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Gorman, James. 2017. “More Than the Sum of Its Parts.” New York Times, February 13, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carmody 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Carmody 2000; Ho and Heinke 2009).

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

Two authors: (Ho and Heinke 2009)
Three authors: (Kim, Park, and Cho 2013)
4 or more authors: (Lopez-Vaamonde et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Intelligent Buildings International
Abbreviation	Intell. Build. Int.
ISSN (print)	1750-8975
ISSN (online)	1756-6932
Scope	Computer Science Applications Building and Construction