How to format your references using the Building and Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Building and Environment. 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]

S.E. Mango, Ageing: generations of longevity, Nature 479 (2011) 302–303.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Roll-Mecak, R.D. Vale, Structural basis of microtubule severing by the hereditary spastic paraplegia protein spastin, Nature 451 (2008) 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Fontana, L. Partridge, V.D. Longo, Extending healthy life span--from yeast to humans, Science 328 (2010) 321–326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Montoya, M.A. Zavala, M.A. Rodríguez, D.W. Purves, Animal versus wind dispersal and the robustness of tree species to deforestation, Science 320 (2008) 1502–1504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Camarillo, M.A. García-Martín, The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

R.C. Benson, Site Characterization in Karst and Pseudokarst Terraines: Practical Strategies and Technology for Practicing Engineers, Hydrologists and Geologists, 1st ed. 2016, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Scherer, J.J. Rossi, Cancer Therapeutic Applications of Ribozymes and RNAi, in: D.T. Curiel, J.T. Douglas (Eds.), Cancer Gene Therapy, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2005: pp. 51–63.

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 Building and Environment.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Vets Call For Ban On Using Homeopathy To Treat Animals, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vets-call-for-ban-on-using-homeopathy-to-treat-animals/ (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, Tax Systems Modernization: Management and Technical Weaknesses Must Be Corrected If Modernization Is to Succeed, 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]

F.I. Obasi, Policy analysis of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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. Ortved, Dressing for Success At the Fish Market, New York Times (2017) D8.

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	Building and Environment
Abbreviation	Build. Environ.
ISSN (print)	0360-1323
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Building and Construction Environmental Engineering Geography, Planning and Development