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

Gormley, William T., Jr. 2011. “From Science to Policy in Early Childhood Education.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6045): 978–981.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boles, Larry C., and Kenneth J. Lohmann. 2003. “True Navigation and Magnetic Maps in Spiny Lobsters.” Nature 421 (6918): 60–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finnegan, Noah J., Rina Schumer, and Seth Finnegan. 2014. “A Signature of Transience in Bedrock River Incision Rates over Timescales of 10(4)-10(7) Years.” Nature 505 (7483): 391–394.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Derégnaucourt, Sébastien, Partha P. Mitra, Olga Fehér, Carolyn Pytte, and Ofer Tchernichovski. 2005. “How Sleep Affects the Developmental Learning of Bird Song.” Nature 433 (7027): 710–716.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bush, Jack, Daryl M. Harris, and Richard J. Parker. 2016. Cognitive Self Change. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Azimova, Shakhnoza S., and Valentina I. Vinogradova, eds. 2013. Natural Compounds: Flavonoids. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Molenaar, Erik J. 2014. “Status and Reform of International Arctic Fisheries Law.” In Arctic Marine Governance: Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation, edited by Elizabeth Tedsen, Sandra Cavalieri, and R. Andreas Kraemer, 103–125. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “New Analysis Suggests Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Destabilizing.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earth-s-magnetic-field-about-flip/.

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. 1970. Savings Possible by Buying Automatic Data Processing Equipment or by Leasing It From Commercial Leasing Firms. B-114829. 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

Pantallion, Ayanna S. 2015. “A Parallel Comparison of Views Regarding Student Preparation for Introductory College Chemistry.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, Sean. 2002. “Op-Art.” New York Times, March 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gormley 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gormley 2011; Boles and Lohmann 2003).

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

Two authors: (Boles and Lohmann 2003)
Three authors: (Finnegan, Schumer, and Finnegan 2014)
4 or more authors: (Derégnaucourt et al. 2005)

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