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]

P. Walker, Nuclear physics. Doubly magic nickel, Nature. 404 (2000) 447, 449.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.N. Hegazy, F. Powrie, MICROBIOME. Microbiota RORgulates intestinal suppressor T cells, Science. 349 (2015) 929–930.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.-F. Haince, M. Rouleau, G.G. Poirier, Transcription. Gene expression needs a break to unwind before carrying on, Science. 312 (2006) 1752–1753.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Wang, J. Zhang, X. Zhang, C. Xu, X. Tu, Solution structure of the Big domain from Streptococcus pneumoniae reveals a novel Ca2+-binding module, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1079.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Implementing Process Safety Management Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 1994.

An edited book

[1]

D.F. Torres, N. Rea, eds., High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and their Systems: Proceedings of the First Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Jocksch, F. Hariri, T.-M. Tran, S. Brunner, C. Gheller, L. Villard, A Bucket Sort Algorithm for the Particle-In-Cell Method on Manycore Architectures, in: R. Wyrzykowski, E. Deelman, J. Dongarra, K. Karczewski, J. Kitowski, K. Wiatr (Eds.), Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 11th International Conference, PPAM 2015, Krakow, Poland, September 6-9, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Part I, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 43–52.

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]

S. Luntz, Huge Waves Spotted In The Arctic Ocean, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/huge-waves-spotted-arctic-ocean/ (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, Digital Television Transition: Preliminary Information on Initial Consumer Education Efforts, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.C. Collette, Validation of the tgFgfr1-EGFP Mouse Line as a Tool to Study Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 Cellular Localization and Expression After Experimental Manipulations, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

G.G. Gustines, Comics Put the Pow In Power, 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

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