How to format your references using the Science and Technology for the Built Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Science and Technology for the Built Environment (STBE). 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

Moses, M. 2009. Being human: engineering: worldwide ebb. Nature, 457(7230):660–661.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rivera, M. C., and J. A. Lake. 2004. The ring of life provides evidence for a genome fusion origin of eukaryotes. Nature, 431(7005):152–155.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thürmer, K., R. Q. Hwang, and N. C. Bartelt. 2006. Surface self-organization caused by dislocation networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5765):1272–1274.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Haxby, J. V., M. I. Gobbini, M. L. Furey, A. Ishai, J. L. Schouten, and P. Pietrini. 2001. Distributed and overlapping representations of faces and objects in ventral temporal cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5539):2425–2430.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ancheyta, J. 2016. Deactivation of Heavy Oil Hydroprocessing Catalysts. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pardalos, P. M., S. Rebennack, M. V. F. Pereira, N. A. Iliadis, and V. Pappu (Eds.). 2013. Handbook of Wind Power Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ghosh, S., A. Joshi, and S. Tripathi. 2013. Empirical Evaluation of Multimodal Input Interactions. In S. Yamamoto (Ed.), Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction Design: 15th International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 37–47). 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 Science and Technology for the Built Environment.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2017, February 27. Jade Pendant’s Inscription Reveals New Aspect To Mayan Civilization.

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. 2011. Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Potential Duplication in Federal Teacher Quality and Employment and Training Programs (No. GAO-11-509T). 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

Proser, M. 2015. Ingredients for Optimal Care: Exploring Factors Associated with Patient Quality Outcomes among Federally-Qualified Health Centers (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Stewart, J. B. 2017, February 2. Case Study in Chaos: Management Experts Grade a Trump White House. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moses 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Moses 2009; Rivera and Lake 2004).

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

Two authors: (Rivera and Lake 2004)
Three or more authors: (Haxby et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Science and Technology for the Built Environment
Abbreviation	Sci. Technol. Built Environ.
ISSN (print)	2374-4731
ISSN (online)	2374-474X
Scope	Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes Building and Construction Environmental Engineering