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

Goldston, D. (2007). Back to school. Nature, 446(7137), 714.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pollard, T. D., & Cooper, J. A. (2009). Actin, a central player in cell shape and movement. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5957), 1208–1212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmitz, D., Mellor, J., & Nicoll, R. A. (2001). Presynaptic kainate receptor mediation of frequency facilitation at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5510), 1972–1976.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Harris, W. M., Lombardo, J. J., Nelson, G. J., Lai, B., Wang, S., Vila-Comamala, J., Liu, M., Liu, M., & Chiu, W. K. S. (2014). Three-dimensional microstructural imaging of sulfur poisoning-induced degradation in a Ni-YSZ anode of solid oxide fuel cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 5246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goria, S. (2017). Methods and Tools for Creative Competitive Intelligence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bank, R., Holst, M., Widlund, O., & Xu, J. (Eds.). (2013). Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XX (Vol. 91). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hendel, R. (2015). The Exodus as Cultural Memory: Egyptian Bondage and the Song of the Sea. In T. E. Levy, T. Schneider, & W. H. C. Propp (Eds.), Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective: Text, Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience (pp. 65–77). Springer International Publishing.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, January 3). SpaceX Will Launch Its First Rocket In Five Months This Sunday. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-will-launch-its-first-rocket-in-five-months-this-sunday/

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. (2000). Computer Security: FAA Is Addressing Personnel Weaknesses, But Further Action Is Required (AIMD-00-169). 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

Cruz, A. A. (2009). Concordance between therapists’ self -reports and observers’ ratings of adherence to marital therapy [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2013, August 19). Manifesta Curator Named. 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 (Goldston, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2007; Pollard & Cooper, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Pollard & Cooper, 2009)
Three authors: (Schmitz et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Harris et al., 2014)

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