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

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

G.M. Mace, Ecology. Whose conservation?, Science 345 (2014) 1558–1560.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.B. Alici, I.F. Gallardo, Detecting secondary structure and surface orientation of helical peptide monolayers from resonant hybridization signals, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2956.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Dragoi, C. Rivadulla, M. Sur, Foci of orientation plasticity in visual cortex, Nature 411 (2001) 80–86.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. Sharon, M. Galun, D. Sharon, R. Basri, A. Brandt, Hierarchy and adaptivity in segmenting visual scenes, Nature 442 (2006) 810–813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Dosil, Eating Disorders in Athletes, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, England, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

U. Köbler, Renormalization Group Theory: Impact on Experimental Magnetism, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.-J. Hospers, N. Reverda, Policy Reactions on Population Decline, in: N. Reverda (Ed.), Managing Population Decline in Europe’s Urban and Rural Areas, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 39–46.

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 Research.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, What Does Exposure To Environmental Chemicals Mean For Our Health?, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-does-exposure-environmental-chemicals-mean-our-health/ (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 Aviation Administration: An Analysis of the Financial Viability of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.J. Stanford, Highly sensitive fiber Bragg grating biosensors, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

M. Billard, Spoil Your Wrist, New York Times (2010) E5.

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 Research
Abbreviation	Cem. Concr. Res.
ISSN (print)	0008-8846
Scope	Building and Construction General Materials Science