How to format your references using the Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials. 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

[1]

Steneck NH. Research ethics. Global research integrity training. Science. 2013;340(6132):552–553.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Keefer DK, Larsen MC. Geology. Assessing landslide hazards. Science. 2007;316(5828):1136–1138.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ruby E, Henderson B, McFall-Ngai M. Microbiology. We get by with a little help from our (little) friends. Science. 2004;303(5662):1305–1307.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Yokoya T, Kiss T, Chainani A, et al. Fermi surface sheet-dependent superconductivity in 2H-NbSe2. Science. 2001;294(5551):2518–2520.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Klir GJ. Uncertainty and Information. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Jendek E. Host Plants of World Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae): A Critical Review. Poláková J, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sen S, Cortesi A, Chaki N. Conclusions. In: Cortesi A, Chaki N, editors. Hyper-lattice Algebraic Model for Data Warehousing. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 61–62.

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 Sustainable Cement-Based Materials.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Hubble’s Deep Field Images Of The Early Universe Are Postcards From Billions Of Years Ago [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubbles-deep-field-images-early-universe-are-postcards-billions-years-ago/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Highway Contracting: Disadvantaged Business Eligibility Guidance and Oversight Are Ineffective. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992. Report No.: RCED-92-148. .

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hofmann R. The fascist reflection Japan and Italy, 1919-1950 [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2010.

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

[1]

Saslow L. 3 Former Executives Of Symbol on Trial. New York Times. 2006 Jan 8;14LI2.

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 Sustainable Cement-Based Materials
ISSN (print)	2165-0373
ISSN (online)	2165-0381
Scope	Waste Management and Disposal Ceramics and Composites