How to format your references using the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering. 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 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

Hassett, J. P. 2006. “Chemistry. Dissolved natural organic matter as a microreactor.” Science, 311 (5768): 1723–1724.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cox, A. G., and W. Goessling. 2014. “Regenerative biology: Take the brakes off for liver repair.” Nature, 506 (7488): 299–300.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stern, P., P. J. Hines, and J. Travis. 2014. “The aging brain. Introduction.” Science, 346 (6209): 566–567.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Segal, E., T. Raveh-Sadka, M. Schroeder, U. Unnerstall, and U. Gaul. 2008. “Predicting expression patterns from regulatory sequence in Drosophila segmentation.” Nature, 451 (7178): 535–540.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Safonov, V. O. 2016. Trustworthy Cloud Computing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Baran, G. R. 2014. Healthcare and Biomedical Technology in the 21st Century: An Introduction for Non-Science Majors. (M. F. Kiani and S. P. Samuel, eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Berger, E., D. Yorukoglu, and B. Berger. 2015. “HapTree-X: An Integrative Bayesian Framework for Haplotype Reconstruction from Transcriptome and Genome Sequencing Data.” Research in Computational Molecular Biology: 19th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2015, Warsaw, Poland, April 12-15, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, T. M. Przytycka, ed., 28–29. Cham: 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 ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2015. “Young Mice Exposed to Cat Pee Don’t Escape Later On.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/young-mice-exposed-cat-pee-dont-escape-later/.

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. 2015. State Health Insurance Marketplaces: CMS Should Improve Oversight of State Information Technology Projects. Washington, DC: 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

Garcia, M. 2015. “College preparedness program for high school students in South Los Angeles, California: A grant proposal.” Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: 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

Vecsey, G. 2010. “Family and Friendship In Stately Victor’s Name.” New York Times, April 29, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hassett 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Cox and Goessling 2014; Hassett 2006).

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

Two authors: (Cox and Goessling 2014)
Three or more authors: (Segal et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering
Abbreviation	ASCE ASME J. Risk Uncertain. Eng. Syst. A Civ. Eng.
ISSN (online)	2376-7642
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