How to format your references using the Construction and Building Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Construction and Building 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]

K.-H. Glassmeier, Planetary science. Magnetic twisters on Mercury, Science. 324 (2009) 597–598.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.A. Rosenberg, N.P. Restifo, Adoptive cell transfer as personalized immunotherapy for human cancer, Science. 348 (2015) 62–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Semenov, S. Dyadechkin, B. Punsly, Simulations of jets driven by black hole rotation, Science. 305 (2004) 978–980.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V. Baglione, D. Canestrari, J.M. Marcos, J. Ekman, Kin selection in cooperative alliances of carrion crows, Science. 300 (2003) 1947–1949.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Bannwarth, Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps, Compressors and Systems, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

I. Itenberg, B. Jöricke, M. Passare, eds., Perspectives in Analysis, Geometry, and Topology: On the Occasion of the 60th Birthday of Oleg Viro, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. Li, Y. Wu, M. Goh, Heuristic Approach, in: Y. Wu, M. Goh (Eds.), Planning and Scheduling for Maritime Container Yards: Supporting and Facilitating the Global Supply Network, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 85–95.

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 Construction and Building Materials.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Do You Have A Lower Attention Span Than A Goldfish?, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/do-you-have-lower-attention-span-goldfish/ (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, Energy and Science Reports and Testimony: 1992, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.B. Wiggins, Using Induced Signals to Develop a Position-Sensitive Microchannel Plate Detector, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 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. Vecsey, Strides, Often Painful, but Always, Always Forward, New York Times. (2010) D5.

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	Construction and Building Materials
Abbreviation	Constr. Build. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0950-0618
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Building and Construction General Materials Science