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

Römling U (2013) Microbiology: bacterial communities as capitalist economies. Nature 497:321–322

A journal article with 2 authors

Holland G, Ballentine CJ (2006) Seawater subduction controls the heavy noble gas composition of the mantle. Nature 441:186–191

A journal article with 3 authors

Yonezawa H, Aoki T, Furusawa A (2004) Demonstration of a quantum teleportation network for continuous variables. Nature 431:430–433

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gao Z, Togano K, Matsumoto A, Kumakura H (2014) Achievement of practical level critical current densities in Ba₁-xKxFe₂As₂/Ag tapes by conventional cold mechanical deformation. Sci Rep 4:4065

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Riegel M, Kroeselberg D, Chindapol A, Premec D (2009) Deploying Mobile WiMAX. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sankai Y, Suzuki K, Hasegawa Y (eds) (2014) Cybernics: Fusion of human, machine and information systems. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Pakarinen MP, Mutanen A (2016) Intestinal Failure-Associated Liver Disease. In: Rintala RJ, Pakarinen M, Wester T (eds) Current Concepts of Intestinal Failure. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 51–61

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) NASA Scientists Find “Lost” Spacecraft Orbiting The Moon. In: IFLScience. 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 (1992) Superfund: EPA Needs to Better Focus Cleanup Technology Development. 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

Randall SL (2010) Psychologists’ use of, familiarity, and comfort with Alcoholics Anonymous Slogans in psychotherapy. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Wagner J (2017) Conforto Set For Surgery; Mets Drop 2. New York Times SP3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Römling 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Holland and Ballentine 2006; Römling 2013).

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

Two authors: (Holland and Ballentine 2006)
Three or more authors: (Gao et al. 2014)

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