How to format your references using the ACI Structural Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACI Structural Journal. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Tippmann, S. “Programming tools: Adventures with R,” Nature, V. 517, No. 7532, 2015, pp. 109–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saks, M. J., and Koehler, J. J. “The coming paradigm shift in forensic identification science,” Science (New York, N.Y.), V. 309, No. 5736, 2005, pp. 892–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Good, M. C., Zalatan, J. G., and Lim, W. A. “Scaffold proteins: hubs for controlling the flow of cellular information,” Science (New York, N.Y.), V. 332, No. 6030, 2011, pp. 680–6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hennessy, K., Badolato, A., Winger, M., et al. “Quantum nature of a strongly coupled single quantum dot-cavity system,” Nature, V. 445, No. 7130, 2007, pp. 896–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, D. “TKO Sales!,” Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.

An edited book

Zimmern, P. E., Norton, P. A., Haab, F., et al., eds. “Vaginal Surgery for Incontinence and Prolapse,” London, Springer, 2006, XV, 303 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Sevincer, V., and Biseth, H. “Tension between National Citizenship and Human Rights.” In: Biseth, H., Holmarsdottir, H. B., eds. Human Rights in the Field of Comparative Education. Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2013. pp. 73–80.

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 ACI Structural Journal.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. “More Hints From CERN On Why The Universe Is Made Of Matter.” IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/more-hints-from-cern-on-why-the-universe-is-made-of-matter/. 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. “Independent Auditor’s Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2015 Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund,” Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shakya, M. “Planter Boxes and Rain Gardens for Urban Stormwater Management: Performance of Extended Field Application.” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2017.

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

Crow, K. “Refurbishing a Courthouse, If Not Its Reputation,” New York Times, 2001, p. 144.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	ACI Structural Journal
ISSN (print)	0889-3241
ISSN (online)	1944-7361
Scope