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

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

Fabry, Victoria J. 2008. “Ocean Science. Marine Calcifiers in a High-CO2 Ocean.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5879): 1020–1022.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milczarek, Grzegorz, and Olle Inganäs. 2012. “Renewable Cathode Materials from Biopolymer/Conjugated Polymer Interpenetrating Networks.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6075): 1468–1471.

A journal article with 3 authors

Batey, Robert T., Sunny D. Gilbert, and Rebecca K. Montange. 2004. “Structure of a Natural Guanine-Responsive Riboswitch Complexed with the Metabolite Hypoxanthine.” Nature 432 (7015): 411–415.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Seifritz, Erich, Fabrizio Esposito, Franciszek Hennel, Henrietta Mustovic, John G. Neuhoff, Deniz Bilecen, Gioacchino Tedeschi, Klaus Scheffler, and Francesco Di Salle. 2002. “Spatiotemporal Pattern of Neural Processing in the Human Auditory Cortex.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5587): 1706–1708.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phillips, Jack J., Wayne Brantley, and Patricia Pulliam Phillips. 2011. Project Management ROI. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dillmann, Rüdiger, Jürgen Beyerer, Uwe D. Hanebeck, and Tanja Schultz, eds. 2010. KI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 33rd Annual German Conference on AI, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 21-24, 2010. Proceedings. Vol. 6359. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Balliauw, Maarten, and Xavier Decoster. 2012. “Hosting Your Own NuGet Server.” In Pro NuGet, edited by Xavier Decoster, 105–153. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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 Performance Simulation.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Wolves, Boar And Other Wildlife Defy Contamination To Make A Comeback At Chernobyl.” IFLScience, IFLScience, October 8.

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. 2007. Drug Testing: Undercover Tests Reveal Significant Vulnerabilities in DOT’s Drug Testing Program. GAO-08-225T. 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

Ratliff, Dorothy J. 2009. “Teen Parenting Curriculum: A Grant Proposal Project.” 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

Burghardt, Linda F. 2005. “On the Curriculum, A Palette of Choices.” New York Times, December 4, 2005.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fabry 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Fabry 2008; Milczarek and Inganäs 2012).

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

Two authors: (Milczarek and Inganäs 2012)
Three authors: (Batey, Gilbert, and Montange 2004)
4 or more authors: (Seifritz et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Building Performance Simulation
Abbreviation	J. Build. Perform. Simul.
ISSN (print)	1940-1493
ISSN (online)	1940-1507
Scope	Computer Science Applications Building and Construction Architecture Modelling and Simulation