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]

J.S. Siegel, Chemistry. Driving the formation of molecular knots, Science 338 (2012) 752–753.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. Lutz, S. Kc, Global human capital: integrating education and population, Science 333 (2011) 587–592.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Dunningham, A. Rau, K. Burnett, From pedigree cats to fluffy-bunnies, Science 307 (2005) 872–875.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.F. Tavazoie, C. Alarcón, T. Oskarsson, D. Padua, Q. Wang, P.D. Bos, W.L. Gerald, J. Massagué, Endogenous human microRNAs that suppress breast cancer metastasis, Nature 451 (2008) 147–152.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.V. Silva Elipe, LC-NMR and Other Hyphenated NMR Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J.T. Mendonça, Physics of Ultra-Cold Matter: Atomic Clouds, Bose-Einstein Condensates and Rydberg Plasmas, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.T. Luu, T.T. Duy, Comparison Between Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches for Time-Varying Delay Estimation with Application to Electromyography Signals, in: P.C. Vinh, L. Barolli (Eds.), Nature of Computation and Communication: Second International Conference, ICTCC 2016, Rach Gia, Vietnam, March 17-18, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 43–51.

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]

T. Hale, Golden Curse Tablets Have Been Found In A Roman Tomb, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/golden-curse-tablets-have-been-found-in-a-roman-tomb/ (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, Recent Development in Science and Technology: Progress and Concerns, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.J. Tripamer, Teacher Perceptions of Teacher Evaluations in the Fort Zumwalt School District, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 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]

J. Wagner, Houston’s Bregman Works on Hitting, Fielding and Spanish, New York Times (2017) SP2.

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