How to format your references using the International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Price SL (2014) Chemistry. Lattice energy, nailed? Science 345:619–620

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulsen M, Boomsma JJ (2005) Mutualistic fungi control crop diversity in fungus-growing ants. Science 307:741–744

A journal article with 3 authors

Møller PR, Nielsen JG, Fossen I (2003) Fish migration: Patagonian toothfish found off Greenland. Nature 421:599

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lelieveld J, van Aardenne J, Fischer H, et al (2004) Increasing ozone over the Atlantic Ocean. Science 304:1483–1487

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kill R (2012) The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Tserpes KI, Silvestre N (eds) (2014) Modeling of Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene and their Composites. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Jacobsen AS (2007) Phrenology And Danish Romanticism. In: Brain RM, Cohen RS, Knudsen O (eds) Hans Christian Ørsted And The Romantic Legacy In Science: Ideas, Disciplines, Practices. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 55–74

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 International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Precision Medicine Offers The Hope Of Cures Made Just For You. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/precision-medicine-offers-hope-cures-made-just-you/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1991) Embedded Computer Systems: C-17 Software Development Problems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kay K (2013) A support group for older adult males struggling with depression: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Crow K (2003) A Block of Fabled Theaters May Get an Extended Run. New York Times 147

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Price 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Poulsen and Boomsma 2005; Price 2014).

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

Two authors: (Poulsen and Boomsma 2005)
Three or more authors: (Lelieveld et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
Abbreviation	Int. J. Adv. Struct. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2008-3556
ISSN (online)	2008-6695
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering