How to format your references using the Structural Control and Health Monitoring citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Structural Control and Health Monitoring. 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

Mather JC. HISTORY OF SCIENCE: Science and Sputnik. Science (New York, NY) 2007; 318(5847): 52–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long P, Corfas G. Neuroscience. To learn is to myelinate. Science (New York, NY) 2014; 346(6207): 298–299.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park SH, Zarrinpar A, Lim WA. Rewiring MAP kinase pathways using alternative scaffold assembly mechanisms. Science (New York, NY) 2003; 299(5609): 1061–1064.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Subarya C, Chlieh M, Prawirodirdjo L, Avouac JP, Bock Y, Sieh K, et al. Plate-boundary deformation associated with the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. Nature 2006; 440(7080): 46–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Torres-Moreno JM. Automatic Text Summarization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Rozhansky V. Review of Plasma Physics. vol. 24. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Schier F, Turial S. Right Upper Abdomen. In: Turial S, editor. Laparoscopy in Children, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

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 Structural Control and Health Monitoring.

Blog post

Andrew D. What Happens When you put a Mouse in Mountain Dew for 30 Days? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/would-mouse-dissolve-mountain-dew-30-days/ [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. Social Security Administration: Information Technology Challenges Facing the Commissioner. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Grady CR. Journeys of our ancestors: Conservation science approaches to the analysis of cultural material. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2009.

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

Yeh J. Little Moments. New York Times 2016: BR44.

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	Structural Control and Health Monitoring
Abbreviation	Struct. Contr. Health Monit.
ISSN (online)	1545-2263
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanics of Materials Building and Construction