How to format your references using the Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation citation style

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

Hasselmo ME (2008) Neuroscience. The scale of experience. Science 321:46–47

A journal article with 2 authors

Shorter J, Lindquist S (2004) Hsp104 catalyzes formation and elimination of self-replicating Sup35 prion conformers. Science 304:1793–1797

A journal article with 3 authors

Schall JD, Paré M, Woodman GF (2007) Comment on “Top-down versus bottom-up control of attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices.” Science 318:44; author reply 44

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pokroy B, Kang SH, Mahadevan L, Aizenberg J (2009) Self-organization of a mesoscale bristle into ordered, hierarchical helical assemblies. Science 323:237–240

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adamczyk B (2017) Foundations of Electromagnetic Compatibility. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ploug T, Hasle P, Oinas-Kukkonen H (2010) Persuasive Technology: 5th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 7-10, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Muselli M (2006) Switching Neural Networks: A New Connectionist Model for Classification. In: Apolloni B, Marinaro M, Nicosia G, Tagliaferri R (eds) Neural Nets: 16th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN 2005, and International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems, NAIS 2005, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, June 8-11, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 23–30

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 Pathology and Rehabilitation.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Smoke From Fires May Spur Stronger Tornadoes. In: IFLScience. 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 (1998) National Airspace System: Status of Wide Area Augmentation System Project. 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

Constantine S (2013) Supportive services for transitional and emancipated youth: A grant proposal. 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

Yagoda B (2016) Bohemian Grove. New York Times BR14

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 Pathology and Rehabilitation
Abbreviation	J. Build. Pathol. Rehabil.
ISSN (print)	2365-3159
ISSN (online)	2365-3167
Scope