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. Perkel, The trouble with reference rot, Nature 521 (2015) 111–112.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Cruz, G. Lowe, Neural coding of binary mixtures in a structurally related odorant pair, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.K. Thompson, S. Rainville, D.E. Pritchard, Cyclotron frequency shifts arising from polarization forces, Nature 430 (2004) 58–61.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.N. Hvorup, B.A. Goetz, M. Niederer, K. Hollenstein, E. Perozo, K.P. Locher, Asymmetry in the structure of the ABC transporter-binding protein complex BtuCD-BtuF, Science 317 (2007) 1387–1390.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.A. Durbin, B.A.P. Reif, Statistical Theory and Modeling for Turbulent Flows, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

T.-Y. Ho, Full-Chip Nanometer Routing Techniques, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Crain, D. Imbs, M. Raynal, Towards a Universal Construction for Transaction-Based Multiprocess Programs, in: L. Bononi, A.K. Datta, S. Devismes, A. Misra (Eds.), Distributed Computing and Networking: 13th International Conference, ICDCN 2012, Hong Kong, China, January 3-6, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 61–75.

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, Watch Mars Opportunity Complete the First Ever Off-Earth Marathon in this NASA Time-lapse, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-mars-opportunity-rover-complete-first-ever-earth-marathon/ (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, Impacts of Education Reform, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.Y. Perilla, Support group for neonatal intensive care families: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

S. Hollander, Navratilova Loves This, New York Times (2000) D4.

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