How to format your references using the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management citation style

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

Gravitz, L. 2011. “Chemoprevention: First line of defence.” Nature, 471 (7339): S5-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor, J. R., and R. Stocker. 2012. “Trade-offs of chemotactic foraging in turbulent water.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 338 (6107): 675–679.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peters, A. J., S. X. Chen, and T. Komiyama. 2014. “Emergence of reproducible spatiotemporal activity during motor learning.” Nature, 510 (7504): 263–267.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bonifazi, P., M. Goldin, M. A. Picardo, I. Jorquera, A. Cattani, G. Bianconi, A. Represa, Y. Ben-Ari, and R. Cossart. 2009. “GABAergic hub neurons orchestrate synchrony in developing hippocampal networks.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 326 (5958): 1419–1424.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahlemeyer-Stubbe, A., and S. Coleman. 2014. A Practical Guide to Data Mining for Business and Industry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rijs, A. M., and J. Oomens, eds. 2015. Gas-Phase IR Spectroscopy and Structure of Biological Molecules. Topics in Current Chemistry. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Penprase, B. 2016. “New Liberal Arts and Sciences Institutions in India and Singapore: The Role of STEM Education.” Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue across Continents, edited by W. C. Kirby and M. C. van der Wende, 61–73. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

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 Construction Engineering and Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2016. “Good Tests Make Children Fail – Here’s Why.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 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. 2010. Aviation Safety: Icing and Winter Weather-Related Recommendations That NTSB Has Issued Since 1996 (GAO-10-679SP), an E-supplement to (GAO-10-678). 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

Pelletier, J. M. 2017. “Effects of Data Breaches on Sector-Wide Systematic Risk in Financial, Technology, Healthcare and Services Sectors.” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University.

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

Poniewozik, J. 2017. “A Brutal Season of Prison Siege.” New York Times, June 8, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gravitz 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gravitz 2011; Taylor and Stocker 2012).

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

Two authors: (Taylor and Stocker 2012)
Three or more authors: (Bonifazi et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Abbreviation	J. Constr. Eng. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0733-9364
ISSN (online)	1943-7862
Scope	Strategy and Management Industrial relations Civil and Structural Engineering Building and Construction