How to format your references using the Journal of Composites for Construction citation style

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

Arner, P. 2011. “Medicine. Lipases in cachexia.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 333 (6039): 163–164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, Y., and G. W. Dorn 2nd. 2013. “PINK1-phosphorylated mitofusin 2 is a Parkin receptor for culling damaged mitochondria.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 340 (6131): 471–475.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Z.-Z., F.-C. Zhang, and Q.-H. Wang. 2014. “Majorana modes in a topological insulator/s-wave superconductor heterostructure.” Scientific reports, 4: 6363.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Miller, A. D., I. Bezel, K. J. Gaffney, S. Garrett-Roe, S. H. Liu, P. Szymanski, and C. B. Harris. 2002. “Electron solvation in two dimensions.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 297 (5584): 1163–1166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ray Chaudhuri, N., B. Chaudhuri, R. Majumder, and A. Yazdani. 2014. Multi-Terminal Direct-Current Grids. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Alpern, S., R. Fokkink, L. Gąsieniec, R. Lindelauf, and V. S. Subrahmanian, eds. 2013. Search Theory: A Game Theoretic Perspective. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Whitehouse, R. 2012. “Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA).” Imaging and Technology in Urology: Principles and Clinical Applications, edited by S. Payne, I. Eardley, and K. O’Flynn, 19–22. London: Springer.

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 Composites for Construction.

Blog post

Andrews, R. 2015. “Ancient Mega-Shark Unearthed In Texas.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-mega-shark-unearthed-texas/.

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. 1973. Protest Against NASA Contract for Janitorial Services. 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

Dean, D. O. 2012. “A discrete-time multiple event process survival mixture (MEPSUM) model for investigating the order and timing of multiple non-repeatable events.” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina.

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

Rothenberg, B. 2017. “Russian, Making Use of Rule, Again Prospers Without Succeeding.” New York Times, August 29, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Arner 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Arner 2011; Chen and Dorn 2013).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Dorn 2013)
Three or more authors: (Miller et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Composites for Construction
Abbreviation	J. Compos. Constr.
ISSN (print)	1090-0268
ISSN (online)	1943-5614
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Building and Construction Ceramics and Composites