How to format your references using the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities citation style

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

Mouillet, D. 2004. “Astronomy. Nearby planetary disks.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 303 (5666): 1982–1983.

A journal article with 2 authors

Colautti, R. I., and S. C. H. Barrett. 2013. “Rapid adaptation to climate facilitates range expansion of an invasive plant.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 342 (6156): 364–366.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamamoto-Kawai, M., E. Carmack, and F. McLaughlin. 2006. “Nitrogen balance and Arctic throughflow.” Nature, 443 (7107): 43.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Goslar, T., M. Arnold, N. Tisnerat-Laborde, J. Czernik, and K. Wieckowski. 2000. “Variations of Younger Dryas atmospheric radiocarbon explicable without ocean circulation changes.” Nature, 403 (6772): 877–880.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackford, R., and U. Schüklenk. 2013. 50 Great Myths about Atheism. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ullah, A. A. 2014. Asian Immigrants in North America with HIV/AIDS: Stigma, Vulnerabilities and Human Rights. Edited by A. S. Huque. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fotakis, D. 2005. “A Primal-Dual Algorithm for Online Non-uniform Facility Location.” Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by P. Bozanis and E. N. Houstis, 47–56. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Performance of Constructed Facilities.

Blog post

Hale, T. 2016. “This Easy Online Breathlessness Test Can Check If You Might Have A Chronic Illness.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-easy-online-breathlessness-test-can-check-if-you-might-have-a-chronic-illness/.

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. 1995. Managing Technology Change: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States Senate. 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

Watson, A. M. 2009. “A novel role for MUC7 mucin glycoprotein in the innate immunity and genetic propensity of asthma.” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Hechinger, J. 2017. “Get the Keg Out of the Frat House.” New York Times, September 26, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mouillet 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Colautti and Barrett 2013; Mouillet 2004).

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

Two authors: (Colautti and Barrett 2013)
Three or more authors: (Goslar et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Abbreviation	J. Perform. Constr. Facil.
ISSN (print)	0887-3828
ISSN (online)	1943-5509
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Building and Construction