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 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

Sander, P.M. Paleontology. Reproduction in Early Amniotes. Science 2012, 337, 806–808.

A journal article with 2 authors

Einav, L.; Levin, J. Economics in the Age of Big Data. Science 2014, 346, 1243089.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaiser, T.E.; Intine, R.V.; Dundr, M. De Novo Formation of a Subnuclear Body. Science 2008, 322, 1713–1717.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Heldwein, E.E.; Lou, H.; Bender, F.C.; Cohen, G.H.; Eisenberg, R.J.; Harrison, S.C. Crystal Structure of Glycoprotein B from Herpes Simplex Virus 1. Science 2006, 313, 217–220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martinsen, U. Kostenrechnung in Der Bauwirtschaft; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2017; ISBN 9783433608258.

An edited book

Paulino, N. Low Power Uwb Cmos Radar Sensors; Garção, A.S., Goes, J., Eds.; Analog Circuits and Signal Processing; 1st ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008; ISBN 9781402084096.

A chapter in an edited book

Verity, D.H.; Rose, G.E. Lacrimal Canalicular Inflammation and Occlusion: Diagnosis and Management. In Oculoplastics and Orbit: Aesthetic and Functional Oculofacial Plastic Problem-Solving in the 21st Century; Guthoff, R.F., Katowitz, J.A., Eds.; Essentials in Ophthalmology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp. 67–77 ISBN 9783540855415.

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. Disease Evolution: The Origins Of Anorexia And How It’s Shaped By Culture And Time Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/disease-evolution-origins-anorexia-and-how-it-s-shaped-culture-and-time/ (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 Organizational Transformation: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Enterprise Architecture Management (Version 2.0) (Supersedes GAO-03-584G); U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2010;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kelleher, A. Gendered Intent to Turnover Resulting from Workplace Bullying in Nursing and Medical Fields. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 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

La GORCE, T. For This Couple, It’s Death Till They Part. New York Times 2017, ST14.

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
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