How to format your references using the KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering citation style

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

van den Broek, P. (2010). Using texts in science education: cognitive processes and knowledge representation: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 328, No. 5977, pp. 453–456.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ralph, T.C., and Boyd, R.W. (2007). PHYSICS. Better computing with photons: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 318, No. 5854, pp. 1251–1252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Balazs, A.C., Emrick, T., and Russell, T.P. (2006). Nanoparticle polymer composites: where two small worlds meet: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 314, No. 5802, pp. 1107–1110.

A journal article with 16 or more authors

Sleiman, P., Wang, D., Glessner, J., Hadley, D., Gur, R.E., Cohen, N., Li, Q., Hakonarson, H., and Janssen-CHOP Neuropsychiatric Genomics Working Group (2013). GWAS meta analysis identifies TSNARE1 as a novel Schizophrenia / Bipolar susceptibility locus: Scientific reports, Vol. 3, p. 3075.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arden, J.B., and Linford, L. (2008). Brain-Based Therapy with Adults, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pánek, T., and Hradecký, J. (Eds.) (2016). Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic, 1st ed. 2016 Ed., Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Etienne, J.-F., Fechter, S., and Juppeaux, E. (2010). “Using Simulink Design Verifier for Proving Behavioral Properties on a Complex Safety Critical System in the Ground Transportation Domain.” Complex Systems Design & Management: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Complex System Design & Management CSDM 2010, Aiguier, M., Bretaudeau, F. and Krob, D. eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 61–72.

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 KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015). Were Beethoven’s Masterpieces Influenced by a Cardiac Arrhythmia? IFLScience,.

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). High Risk Series: Student Financial Aid: 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

Zellner, K.M. (2008). An examination of grade distribution patterns and grade inflation at a baccalaureate nursing program, 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

Feeney, K. (2007). Falafel, Panini Style: New York Times, p. NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van den Broek, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (van den Broek, 2010; Ralph and Boyd, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Ralph and Boyd, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Sleiman et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
Abbreviation	KSCE J. Civ. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1226-7988
ISSN (online)	1976-3808
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering