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]

L.M. Richter, Studying adolescence, Science. 312 (2006) 1902–1905.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.V. Costache, S.O. Valenzuela, Experimental spin ratchet, Science. 330 (2010) 1645–1648.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.L. Stewart, K.J. Roux, B. Burke, Blurring the boundary: the nuclear envelope extends its reach, Science. 318 (2007) 1408–1412.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Popow, M. Englert, S. Weitzer, A. Schleiffer, B. Mierzwa, K. Mechtler, S. Trowitzsch, C.L. Will, R. Lührmann, D. Söll, J. Martinez, HSPC117 is the essential subunit of a human tRNA splicing ligase complex, Science. 331 (2011) 760–764.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.W. Blume, High Voltage Protection for Telecommunications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J. Klaesson, B. Johansson, C. Karlsson, eds., Metropolitan Regions: Knowledge Infrastructures of the Global Economy, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Cheng, J. Wang, H. Wu, W. Xu, W. Zhang, P. Jin, Q. Zhu, Flocking Behavior via Leader’s Backstepping on Nonholonomic Robot Group, in: L. Liu, Q. Zhu, L. Cheng, Y. Wang, D. Zhao (Eds.), Applied Methods and Techniques for Mechatronic Systems: Modelling, Identification and Control, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 99–115.

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]

D. Andrew, New Ways To Treat Depression In Teenagers, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-ways-to-treat-depression-in-teenagers/ (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, The Concorde Supersonic Aircraft Trial Entry into Dulles International Airport, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.M. Bathon, Examining the characteristics of school leaders and of local schools where Indiana educational leadership preparation programs place their graduates, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2008.

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. Wagner, Once Damaged Goods, Mets Reliever Returns to the Top Shelf, New York Times. (2016) B10.

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)