How to format your references using the International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Advanced Structural 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 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

Balter M (2000) EUROPEAN SCIENCE POLICY: France Rebels Against Gene-Patenting Law. Science 288:2115a

A journal article with 2 authors

Voss R, Nelemans G (2008) Discovery of the progenitor of the type Ia supernova 2007on. Nature 451:802–804

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang P, Cohen RE, Haule K (2015) Effects of electron correlations on transport properties of iron at Earth’s core conditions. Nature 517:605–607

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Watkins DN, Berman DM, Burkholder SG, et al (2003) Hedgehog signalling within airway epithelial progenitors and in small-cell lung cancer. Nature 422:313–317

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacClancy J (2013) Anthropology in the Public Arena. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Chichester, UK

An edited book

Feige J-J, Pagès G, Soncin F (eds) (2014) Molecular Mechanisms of Angiogenesis: From Ontogenesis to Oncogenesis. Springer, Paris

A chapter in an edited book

Freedman I (2014) Pharmaco-Imaging in Translational Science and Research. In: Moyer BR, Cheruvu NPS, Hu TC-C (eds) Pharmaco-Imaging in Drug and Biologics Development: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp 95–112

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 International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Want To Swab Surfers’ Butts To Assess Antibiotic Resistance Risk. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/beach-bum-study-needs-surfers-assess-antibiotic-resistance-risk/. 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 (2008) Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program. 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

Mayo J (2010) Rates and factors associated with child maltreatment recurrence for children from birth to 5 years of age in Ventura County. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Vecsey G (2011) 50 Years Later, Maris’s 61-Homer Season Looks Even Better. New York Times SP2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Balter 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Balter 2000; Voss and Nelemans 2008).

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

Two authors: (Voss and Nelemans 2008)
Three or more authors: (Watkins et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
Abbreviation	Int. J. Adv. Struct. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2008-3556
ISSN (online)	2008-6695
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering