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

Bender, E. 2014. “Developing world: Global warning.” Nature, 509 (7502): S64-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abbott, A., and U. Gitschel. 2000. “German scientists left in the cold as Berlin rejects rescue plan.” Nature, 406 (6797): 663–664.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, D., B.-J. Lin, and A. K. Lee. 2012. “Hippocampal place fields emerge upon single-cell manipulation of excitability during behavior.” Science, 337 (6096): 849–853.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lister, R., M. Pelizzola, Y. S. Kida, R. D. Hawkins, J. R. Nery, G. Hon, J. Antosiewicz-Bourget, R. O’Malley, R. Castanon, S. Klugman, M. Downes, R. Yu, R. Stewart, B. Ren, J. A. Thomson, R. M. Evans, and J. R. Ecker. 2011. “Hotspots of aberrant epigenomic reprogramming in human induced pluripotent stem cells.” Nature, 471 (7336): 68–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radwanska, M., A. Stankiewicz, A. Wosatko, and J. Pamin. 2017. Plate and Shell Structures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bartolo, B. D., and O. Forte (Eds.). 2005. Frontiers of Optical Spectroscopy: Investigating Extreme Physical Conditions with Advanced Optical Techniques. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirabayashi, J. 2015. “Historical and Practical Aspects of Development of Lectin Microarray Technique Lectin microarray.” Glycoscience: Biology and Medicine, N. Taniguchi, T. Endo, G. W. Hart, P. H. Seeberger, and C.-H. Wong, eds., 53–60. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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

Andrews, R. 2016. “Beijing Confirms That Climate Change Is Not A Chinese Hoax After All.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/beijing-confirms-climate-change-chinese-hoax/.

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. 1979. Opportunities for Improving Program Planning for Photovoltaic Research and Development. 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

Dawood, A. A. 2010. “Relationship between mental health and treatment seeking in an urban Muslim community.” 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

McAULEY, J. 2016. “The Artists and Their Alley.” New York Times, September 22, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bender 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott and Gitschel 2000; Bender 2014).

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

Two authors: (Abbott and Gitschel 2000)
Three or more authors: (Lister et al. 2011)

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
Scope