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

[1]

K.R. Matthews, Controlling and coordinating development in vector-transmitted parasites, Science 331 (2011) 1149–1153.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.P. Gollub, M.C. Cross, Chaos in space and time, Nature 404 (2000) 710–711.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Tsiavaliaris, S. Fujita-Becker, D.J. Manstein, Molecular engineering of a backwards-moving myosin motor, Nature 427 (2004) 558–561.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Tsai, R. Asadpour, J.-C. Blancon, C.C. Stoumpos, O. Durand, J.W. Strzalka, B. Chen, R. Verduzco, P.M. Ajayan, S. Tretiak, J. Even, M.A. Alam, M.G. Kanatzidis, W. Nie, A.D. Mohite, Light-induced lattice expansion leads to high-efficiency perovskite solar cells, Science 360 (2018) 67–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.R. New, Hymenoptera and Conservation, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A. Abraham, A.-E. Hassanien, A.P. de Leon F. de Carvalho, V. Snášel, eds., Foundations of Computational, IntelligenceVolume 6: Data Mining, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Wang, G. Agrawal, Query Reuse Based Query Planning for Searches over the Deep Web, in: P.G. Bringas, A. Hameurlain, G. Quirchmayr (Eds.), Database and Expert Systems Applications: 21th International Conference, DEXA 2010, Bilbao, Spain, August 30 - September 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 64–79.

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

[1]

E. Andrew, Man Fails Paternity Test Because Unborn Twin Is The Biological Father Of His Son, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/man-failed-paternity-test-because-he-chimera-his-unborn-twin/ (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, First Look at Senior Executive Service Performance Awards/NASA, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.J. Finnegan, Information food webs: A quantitative inquiry using a biological food web methodology, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2010.

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]

B. Brantley, Young Con Man as Tragic Hero, New York Times (2017) 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	Cement and Concrete Composites
Abbreviation	Cem. Concr. Compos.
ISSN (print)	0958-9465
Scope	Building and Construction General Materials Science