How to format your references using the Automation in Construction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Automation in Construction. 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

[1]

R. VanNimwegen, Award-winning commitment, Nature. 447 (2007) 610.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Zitvogel, G. Kroemer, Cancer: Antibodies regulate antitumour immunity, Nature. 521 (2015) 35–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Yazdanbakhsh, P.G. Kremsner, R. van Ree, Allergy, parasites, and the hygiene hypothesis, Science. 296 (2002) 490–494.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Mahara, T. Ohta, H. Ogawa, A. Kumata, Atmospheric direct uptake and long-term fate of radiocesium in trees after the Fukushima nuclear accident, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7121.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Venkataraman, Design of Jigs, Fixtures and Press Tools, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

N. Dershowitz, E. Nissan, eds., Language, Culture, Computation. Computational Linguistics and Linguistics: Essays Dedicated to Yaacov Choueka on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday, Part III, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Fujii, Role of RANS, Hybrid and LES for Wing Flow Simulations at Relatively Low Reynolds Numbers, in: S. Fu, W. Haase, S.-H. Peng, D. Schwamborn (Eds.), Progress in Hybrid RANS-LES Modelling: Papers Contributed to the 4th Symposium on Hybrid RANS-LES Methods, Beijing, China, September 2011, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 45–57.

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 Automation in Construction.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, New Horizons Begins Life After Pluto By Studying Distant Solar System Object, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-begins-life-after-pluto/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, The Maritime Administration’s Evaluation of the End Products of Research and Development Contracts with Private, Profitmaking Firms, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Serrano, Bilingual Sentiment Analysis of Spanglish Tweets, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2017.

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

[1]

K. Crow, For Homeless Families, A Tiring Trek to School, New York Times. (2003) 145.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Automation in Construction
Abbreviation	Autom. Constr.
ISSN (print)	0926-5805
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Control and Systems Engineering Building and Construction