How to format your references using the Advances in Building Energy Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Building Energy Research. 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

Brook, R. J. (2000). W. David Kingery (1926-2000). Nature, 406(6796), 582.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sakaba, T., & Neher, E. (2003). Direct modulation of synaptic vesicle priming by GABA(B) receptor activation at a glutamatergic synapse. Nature, 424(6950), 775–778.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, X., Schuler, M. A., & Berenbaum, M. R. (2002). Jasmonate and salicylate induce expression of herbivore cytochrome P450 genes. Nature, 419(6908), 712–715.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Murdoch, W. W., Kendall, B. E., Nisbet, R. M., Briggs, C. J., McCauley, E., & Bolser, R. (2002). Single-species models for many-species food webs. Nature, 417(6888), 541–543.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Law, H. (2013). The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Fumagalli, E. (2007). Service Quality Regulation in Electricity Distribution and Retail (L. L. Schiavo & F. Delestre, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rodriguez, F., Bräuning, A., Gerique, A., Behling, H., & Volland, F. (2013). Landscape History, Vegetation History, and Past Human Impacts. In J. Bendix, E. Beck, A. Bräuning, F. Makeschin, R. Mosandl, S. Scheu, & W. Wilcke (Eds.), Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador (pp. 53–66). 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 Advances in Building Energy Research.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, September 21). Medical Marijuana Laws Lead To Decrease In Opioid Painkiller Use. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/medical-marijuana-laws-lead-to-decrease-in-opioid-painkiller-use/

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. (2001). Aviation Security: Weaknesses in Airport Security and Options for Assigning Screening Responsibilities (GAO-01-1165T). 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

Miller, A. (2017). Group Mentoring Program to Empower Transitional-Aged Youth: A Grant Proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2016, November 17). Anniversary Present: 25-Cent Comic Books. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brook, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Brook, 2000; Sakaba & Neher, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Sakaba & Neher, 2003)
Three authors: (Li et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Murdoch et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Building Energy Research
Abbreviation	Adv. Build. Energy Res.
ISSN (print)	1751-2549
ISSN (online)	1756-2201
Scope	Building and Construction