How to format your references using the Case Studies in Construction Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Case Studies in Construction Materials. 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. Chakravarty, Physics. From complexity to simplicity, Science 319 (2008) 735–736.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Douglas, M. Young, Viruses: making friends with old foes, Science 312 (2006) 873–875.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.J. Dickinson, W.J. Nelson, W.I. Weis, A polarized epithelium organized by beta- and alpha-catenin predates cadherin and metazoan origins, Science 331 (2011) 1336–1339.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Tian, F. Zhang, J. Cheng, S. Guo, P. Liu, H. Wang, Antidepressant-like activity of adhyperforin, a novel constituent of Hypericum perforatum L, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.E.A. Warren, R.M. Lerner, E. Phelps, Thriving and Spirituality Among Youth, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

M.M. Kithinji, M.M. Koster, J.P. Rotich, eds., Kenya After 50: Reconfiguring Historical, Political, and Policy Milestones, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.M. Wahid, A. Mukherji, A. Shrestha, Climate Change Adaptation, Water Infrastructure Development, and Responsive Governance in the Himalayas: The Case Study of Nepal’s Koshi River Basin, in: C. Tortajada (Ed.), Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change: The Roles of Infrastructure and Governance in the Context of Adaptation, Springer, Singapore, 2016: pp. 61–80.

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 Case Studies in Construction Materials.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Gene-Stimulating Molecules Rescue Mice From Drug-Induced Liver Damage, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-stimulating-molecules-rescue-mice-drug-induced-liver-damage/ (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, Federal Research: DOE Is Providing Independent Review of the Scientific Merit of Its Research, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Mowery, Beneath the Attack Surface, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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]

M. Paulson, ‘Groundhog Day’ Will Close on Sept. 17, New York Times (2017) C3.

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	Case Studies in Construction Materials
Abbreviation	Case Stud. Constr. Mater.
ISSN (print)	2214-5095
Scope	Materials Science (miscellaneous)