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

Ghahramani, Z. “Computational neuroscience. Building blocks of movement,” Nature, V. 407, No. 6805, 2000, pp. 682–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Massol, F., and Crochet, P.-A. “Do animal personalities emerge?,” Nature, V. 451, No. 7182, 2008, pp. E8-9; discussion E9-10.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sambanis, N., Schulhofer-Wohl, J., and Shayo, M. “Social psychology. Parochialism as a central challenge in counterinsurgency,” Science (New York, N.Y.), V. 336, No. 6083, 2012, pp. 805–8.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Osterloo, M. M., Hamilton, V. E., Bandfield, J. L., et al. “Chloride-bearing materials in the southern highlands of Mars,” Science (New York, N.Y.), V. 319, No. 5870, 2008, pp. 1651–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuzmeski, M. “The Connectors,” Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

Tidona, C., and Darai, G., eds. “The Springer Index of Viruses,” 2nd edition, New York, NY, Springer, 2011, 434 illus. eReference p.

A chapter in an edited book

Rhee, H. S., Jeong, I. R., Byun, J. W., et al. “Difference Set Attacks on Conjunctive Keyword Search Schemes.” In: Jonker, W., Petković, M., eds. Secure Data Management: Third VLDB Workshop, SDM 2006, Seoul, Korea, September 10-11, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2006. pp. 64–74.

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

Andrew, E. “Tomb of Ancient, Unknown Queen Discovered In Egypt.” 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. “Science and Engineering Manpower Forecasting: Its Use in Policymaking,” Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Narayanan, B. C. “Structure function diversity within the phosphoenolpyruvate mutase/isocitrate lyase superfamily as revealed by the enzymes oxaloacetate decarboxylase and 2,3-dimethylmalate lyase.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2008.

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

Whiteside, K. “Trying to Find a Sneaker Named For a W.N.B.A. Star? Keep Looking,” New York Times, 2017, p. B7.

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