How to format your references using the Journal of the Korean Society of Civil Engineers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Korean Society of Civil Engineers. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Dickson, D. (2000). “Calls for international biotech panel:” Nature, Vol. 403, No. 6772, p. 821.

A journal article with 2 authors

Estrin, D. and Sim, I. (2010). “Health care delivery. Open mHealth architecture: an engine for health care innovation:” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 330, No. 6005, pp. 759–760.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dahal, D., Liu, S. and Oeding, J. (2014). “The carbon cycle and hurricanes in the United States between 1900 and 2011:” Scientific reports, Vol. 4, p. 5197.

A journal article with 16 or more authors

Boudker, O., Ryan, R.M., Yernool, D., Shimamoto, K. and Gouaux, E. (2007). “Coupling substrate and ion binding to extracellular gate of a sodium-dependent aspartate transporter:” Nature, Vol. 445, No. 7126, pp. 387–393.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stenholm, S. and Suominen, K.-A. (2005). Quantum Approach to Informatics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Al-Rubeai, M. and Fussenegger, M. (Eds.) (2007). Systems Biology, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Almeida, A., Rebelo, F. and Noriega, P. (2016). Development of a Virtual Environment for Safety Warnings Behavior Compliance Evaluation. Advances in Ergonomics in Design: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Rebelo, F. and Soares, M. eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 35–42.

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 the Korean Society of Civil Engineers.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Motion Sickness Can Be Relieved By Applying An Electric Current To Your Scalp, IFLScience, Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/relieve-motion-sickness-electric-current-across-brain/ (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 (1997). Program Status: Naval Surface Fire Support: 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

Crosby, A.E. (2012). A phenomenological heuristic study of psychosocial factors that contribute to African American females’ HIV seroconversion, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix.

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

Douglas Stone, A. and Schwab-Stone, M. (2016). Why College Is Not Home: New York Times, p. ED21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickson, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dickson, 2000; Estrin and Sim, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Estrin and Sim, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Boudker et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Korean Society of Civil Engineers
ISSN (print)	1015-6348
ISSN (online)	2287-934X
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