How to format your references using the Cement and Concrete Composites citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cement and Concrete Composites. 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

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M. Bode, Physics. The environment matters--even on the atomic scale, Science 306 (2004) 423–425.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.C. Gallo, L. Montagnier, Historical essay. Prospects for the future, Science 298 (2002) 1730–1731.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Parens, J. Johnston, J. Moses, Ethics. Do we need “synthetic bioethics”?, Science 321 (2008) 1449.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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I.R. Hall, I.N. McCave, N.J. Shackleton, G.P. Weedon, S.E. Harris, Intensified deep Pacific inflow and ventilation in Pleistocene glacial times, Nature 412 (2001) 809–812.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y.S. Lee, Self-Assembly and Nanotechnology Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

V.S. Dogra, G.T. MacLennan, eds., Genitourinary Radiology: Kidney, Bladder and Urethra: The Pathologic Basis, Springer, London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

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R. Hell, M. Wirtz, Metabolism of Cysteine in Plants and Phototrophic Bacteria, in: R. Hell, C. Dahl, D. Knaff, T. Leustek (Eds.), Sulfur Metabolism in Phototrophic Organisms, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008: pp. 59–91.

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 Cement and Concrete Composites.

Blog post

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R. Andrews, Scientists Have Discovered A Secret Function Of Lungs, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-have-discovered-a-secret-function-of-lungs/ (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, Urban Transportation: Challenges to Widespread Deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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E.P. Tyler, Tectonic geomorphology of quaternary river terraces at Santa Cruz Creek, Santa Maria Basin, Santa Barbara County, California, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

K. Crow, Trying to Protect A Zigzag Piece Of a Famed Circle, New York Times (2001) 145.

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	Cement and Concrete Composites
Abbreviation	Cem. Concr. Compos.
ISSN (print)	0958-9465
Scope	Building and Construction General Materials Science