How to format your references using the Journal of Building Engineering citation style

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

[1]

K. Powell, Getting schooled, Nature 435 (2005) 850–851.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.J. Bouwens, G.D. Illingworth, Rapid evolution of the most luminous galaxies during the first 900 million years, Nature 443 (2006) 189–192.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L.C. Ivany, W.P. Patterson, K.C. Lohmann, Cooler winters as a possible cause of mass extinctions at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary, Nature 407 (2000) 887–890.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Bigay, P. Gounon, S. Robineau, B. Antonny, Lipid packing sensed by ArfGAP1 couples COPI coat disassembly to membrane bilayer curvature, Nature 426 (2003) 563–566.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Heckman, Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps and Services, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

G. Grieser, Y. Tanaka, eds., Intuitive Human Interfaces for Organizing and Accessing Intellectual Assets: International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, March 1-5, 2004, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Thomas, L.R. Kopczak, Life-Saving Supply Chains, in: H.L. Lee, C.-Y. Lee (Eds.), Building Supply Chain Excellence in Emerging Economies, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007: pp. 93–111.

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 Journal of Building Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Working At A Desk Means You Might Die Sooner, Unless You Exercise For An Hour Every Day, IFLScience (2016).

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, Tax Systems Modernization: Comments on IRS’ Fiscal Year 1994 Budget Request, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.G. Contreras, A reproductive health program for the Latino adolescent community: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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. Apuzzo, A. Goldman, M.S. Schmidt, M. Rosenberg, Mueller Inquiry Unveils Charges and a Russia Link, 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	Journal of Building Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Build. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2352-7102
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanics of Materials Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Building and Construction Architecture