How to format your references using the Intelligent Buildings International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Intelligent Buildings International. 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

Lichten, Michael. 2015. “Molecular Biology. Putting the Breaks on Meiosis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350 (6263): 913.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fox, Peter, and James Hendler. 2011. “Changing the Equation on Scientific Data Visualization.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 331 (6018): 705–708.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chou, Stephen Y., Chris Keimel, and Jian Gu. 2002. “Ultrafast and Direct Imprint of Nanostructures in Silicon.” Nature 417 (6891): 835–837.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pai, Rajaram A., Raashina Humayun, Michelle T. Schulberg, Archita Sengupta, Jia-Ning Sun, and James J. Watkins. 2004. “Mesoporous Silicates Prepared Using Preorganized Templates in Supercritical Fluids.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 303 (5657): 507–510.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Snape, Steven. 2011. Ancient Egyptian Tombs. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Olsen, Odd-Arne, ed. 2007. Endosperm: Developmental and Molecular Biology. Vol. 8. Plant Cell Monographs. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Melián-Batista, Belén, J. Marcos Moreno-Vega, Nitesh Vaswani, and Rayco Yumar. 2009. “A Nature Inspired Approach for the Uncapacitated Plant Cycle Location Problem.” In Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2008), edited by Natalio Krasnogor, María Belén Melián-Batista, José Andrés Moreno Pérez, J. Marcos Moreno-Vega, and David Alejandro Pelta, 49–60. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Intelligent Buildings International.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2015. “‘Supermoon’ Will Be Visible Tonight.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-supermoon-year-weekend/.

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

Government Accountability Office. 1984. Reasons for Lack of Replacement for Failed Weather Satellite. RCED-84-198. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wenger, Matthew C. 2011. “Free-Choice Family Learning Experiences at Informal Astronomy Observing Events.” Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Sengupta, Somini, Melissa Eddy, Chris Buckley, and Alissa J. Rubin. 2017. “Defiant Other Countries Reaffirm Fight Against Climate Change.” New York Times, June 1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lichten 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lichten 2015; Fox and Hendler 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Fox and Hendler 2011)
Three authors: (Chou, Keimel, and Gu 2002)
4 or more authors: (Pai et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Intelligent Buildings International
Abbreviation	Intell. Build. Int.
ISSN (print)	1750-8975
ISSN (online)	1756-6932
Scope	Computer Science Applications Building and Construction