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]

J.M. Archibald, Evolution: Gene transfer in complex cells, Nature 524 (2015) 423–424.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Hirsch, F. Novelli, Cancer: natural-born killers unleashed, Nature 510 (2014) 342–343.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.H. Bass, E.H. Gilland, R. Baker, Evolutionary origins for social vocalization in a vertebrate hindbrain-spinal compartment, Science 321 (2008) 417–421.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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M. Jaskelioff, F.L. Muller, J.-H. Paik, E. Thomas, S. Jiang, A.C. Adams, E. Sahin, M. Kost-Alimova, A. Protopopov, J. Cadiñanos, J.W. Horner, E. Maratos-Flier, R.A. Depinho, Telomerase reactivation reverses tissue degeneration in aged telomerase-deficient mice, Nature 469 (2011) 102–106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Pickles, A. Smith, R. Begg, M. Buček, P. Roukova, R. Pástor, Articulations of Capital, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

N. Baas, E.M. Friedlander, B. Jahren, P.A. Østvær, eds., Algebraic Topology: The Abel Symposium 2007, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.T. Do, H.R. Schöler, Cell-Cell Fusion as a Means to Establish Pluripotency, in: J. Morser, S.-I. Nishikawa, H.R. Schöler (Eds.), Stem Cells in Reproduction and in the Brain, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 35–45.

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]

E. Andrew, Lava Flow In Hawaii Incinerates Its First House, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/lava-flow-hawaii-incinerates-its-first-house/ (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, Teacher Training: Status and Participants’ Views of Delta Teachers Academy, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Greenfield, Beyond Super Heroes and Talking Animals: Social Justice in Graphic Novels in Education, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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]

J. Hodgman, Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times (2017) MM22.

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