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

Telling G (2015) Neurodegeneration: Evolved protection against human prions. Nature 522:423–424

A journal article with 2 authors

Cantó C, Auwerx J (2012) Cell biology. FGF21 takes a fat bite. Science 336:675–676

A journal article with 3 authors

Brandvain Y, Barker MS, Wade MJ (2007) Gene co-inheritance and gene transfer. Science 315:1685

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Carilli CL, Lewis GF, Djorgovski SG, et al (2003) A molecular Einstein ring: imaging a starburst disk surrounding a quasi-stellar object. Science 300:773–775

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Warnock G, Ghafary M, Shaheen G (2015) Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing Architect (SRA) Self-Study Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Inverardi P, Jazayeri M (eds) (2006) Software Engineering Education in the Modern Age: Software Education and Training Sessions at the International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2005, St. Louis, MO, USA, May 15-21, 2005, Revised Lectures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Guidotti R, Berlingerio M (2016) Where Is My Next Friend? Recommending Enjoyable Profiles in Location Based Services. In: Cherifi H, Gonçalves B, Menezes R, Sinatra R (eds) Complex Networks VII: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Complex Networks CompleNet 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 65–78

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

Carpineti A (2016) A Planet Is Being Devoured By Its Young Star. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-planet-is-being-devoured-by-its-young-star/. 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 (2000) Reagan National Airport: Limited Opportunities to Improve Airlines’ Compliance with Noise Abatement Procedures. 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

Grizzel RE (2010) Three choral works by Dr. James Mobberley—the analysis rehearsal, and performance of “Poem to Ease Birth”, “Lullaby”, and “Spring: O Sparrow.” 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

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

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Telling 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cantó and Auwerx 2012; Telling 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cantó and Auwerx 2012)
Three or more authors: (Carilli et al. 2003)

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