How to format your references using the Buildings citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Buildings. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Rogers, J.A. Materials Science. A Clear Advance in Soft Actuators. Science 2013, 341, 968–969.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xia, Y.; Gong, J.-P. Impact of Recombinant Globular Adiponectin on Early Warm Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Rat Bile Duct after Liver Transplantation. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6426.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zenkin, N.; Yuzenkova, Y.; Severinov, K. Transcript-Assisted Transcriptional Proofreading. Science 2006, 313, 518–520.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, D.; Zhao, R.; Lilyestrom, W.; Gai, D.; Zhang, R.; DeCaprio, J.A.; Fanning, E.; Jochimiak, A.; Szakonyi, G.; Chen, X.S. Structure of the Replicative Helicase of the Oncoprotein SV40 Large Tumour Antigen. Nature 2003, 423, 512–518.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cauvin, C.; Escobar, F.; Serradj, A. New Approaches in Thematic Cartography; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9781118558010.

An edited book

Information Retrieval Technology: 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1-3, 2010. Proceedings; Cheng, P.-J., Kan, M.-Y., Lam, W., Nakov, P., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; Vol. 6458; ISBN 9783642171864.

A chapter in an edited book

Linz, J.E.; Wee, J.M.; Roze, L.V. Aflatoxin Biosynthesis: Regulation and Subcellular Localization. In Biosynthesis and Molecular Genetics of Fungal Secondary Metabolites; Martín, J.-F., García-Estrada, C., Zeilinger, S., Eds.; Fungal Biology; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; pp. 89–110 ISBN 9781493911905.

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 Buildings.

Blog post

Andrew, E. How A Wobbly Axis Helped Our Planet Escape ‘Snowball Earth’ Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-wobbly-axis-helped-our-planet-escape-snowball-earth/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Space Acquisitions: Some Programs Have Overcome Past Problems, but Challenges and Uncertainty Remain for the Future; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Le Blanc, J.D. Helping African American Middle School Students Transition to High School with the New Normal Project: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Fisher, I.; Hubbard, B. Awash in Turmoil, Arab World Leaves Two-State Goal Adrift. New York Times 2017, A1.

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	Buildings
ISSN (online)	2075-5309
Scope