How to format your references using the International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment. 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

Abbott, A., 2000. Art imitating high-energy physics. Nature 404, 219.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMichael, A.J., Jones, E.Y., 2010. Genetics. First-class control of HIV-1. Science 330, 1488–1490.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rao, J.N., Madasu, Y., Dominguez, R., 2014. Mechanism of actin filament pointed-end capping by tropomodulin. Science 345, 463–467.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Howells, E.J., Abrego, D., Vaughan, G.O., Burt, J.A., 2014. Coral spawning in the Gulf of Oman and relationship to latitudinal variation in spawning season in the northwest Indian Ocean. Sci. Rep. 4, 7484.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wildi, O., 2010. Data Analysis in Vegetation Ecology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hublin, J.-J., Harvati, K., Harrison, T. (Eds.), 2006. Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Reed, K., Bornstein, B.H., 2015. Using Mock Jury Studies to Measure Community Sentiment Toward Child Sexual Abusers, in: Miller, M.K., Blumenthal, J.A., Chamberlain, J. (Eds.), Handbook of Community Sentiment. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 57–68.

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 Sustainable Built Environment.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Drone-Smacking Chimp Shows Forward Planning Of Weapon Use [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/drone-smacking-chimp-shows-forward-planning-weapon-use/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1999. Truck Safety: Motor Carriers Office Hampered by Limited Information on Causes of Crashes and Other Data Problems (No. RCED-99-182). 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

Fahmy, C., 2012. Intoxicated by music: A content analysis of the prevalence of alcohol, illicit substances, and tobacco in popular music from 2000 to 2011 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hubbard, B., 2017. Saudi Arabia Restores Salaries and Bonuses Amid Grumbling. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2000; McMichael and Jones, 2010).

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

Two authors: (McMichael and Jones, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Howells et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment
Abbreviation	Int. J. Sustain. Built Environ.
ISSN (print)	2212-6090
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Ecological Modelling Environmental Engineering Urban Studies