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

Gershon, D. Cell Biology Gets Plugged In. Nature 2002, 417, 6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taira, T.; Hatoyama, Y. Nuclear Energy: Nationalize the Fukushima Daiichi Atomic Plant. Nature 2011, 480, 313–314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Locher, K.P.; Lee, A.T.; Rees, D.C. The E. Coli BtuCD Structure: A Framework for ABC Transporter Architecture and Mechanism. Science 2002, 296, 1091–1098.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, G.-Y.; Tang, J.; Zheng, P.; Liu, Y. CD24 and Siglec-10 Selectively Repress Tissue Damage-Induced Immune Responses. Science 2009, 323, 1722–1725.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Behme, S. Manufacturing of Pharmaceutical Proteins; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2015; ISBN 9783527683109.

An edited book

Advanced Functional Programming: 5th International School, AFP 2004, Tartu, Estonia, August 14 – 21, 2004, Revised Lectures; Vene, V., Uustalu, T., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; Vol. 3622; ISBN 9783540285403.

A chapter in an edited book

Mas, A.C.; Nethsinghe, R.; Forrest, D. The Arts within a Sustainable Educational Agenda. In Global Learning in the 21st Century; Barkatsas, T., Bertram, A., Eds.; SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2016; pp. 71–82 ISBN 9789463007610.

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. Show Us Your Smarts: A Very Brief History Of Intelligence Testing Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/show-us-your-smarts-very-brief-history-intelligence-testing/ (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 Freight Transportation: Short Sea Shipping Option Shows Importance of Systematic Approach to Public Investment Decisions; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Casale, N. Generational Preferences in Marketing Medium Selections of Animal Adoptions in Nonprofit Organizations: A Correlational Study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 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

Poniewozik, J. The ‘Nasty’ Women of the 1960s. New York Times 2016, C1.

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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