How to format your references using the International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials. 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

Dagotto, E. (2007). PHYSICS. When oxides meet face to face. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5853), 1076–1077.

A journal article with 2 authors

McGuire, J. J., & Beroza, G. C. (2012). Geophysics. A rogue earthquake off Sumatra. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6085), 1118–1119.

A journal article with 3 authors

Usdin, M., Guillerm, M., & Chirac, P. (2006). Neglected tests for neglected patients. Nature, 441(7091), 283–284.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rogers, M. E., Ilg, T., Nikolaev, A. V., Ferguson, M. A. J., & Bates, P. A. (2004). Transmission of cutaneous leishmaniasis by sand flies is enhanced by regurgitation of fPPG. Nature, 430(6998), 463–467.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cauvin, C., Escobar, F., & Serradj, A. (2010). Cartography and the Impact of the Quantitative Revolution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Collins, L. J. (Ed.). (2011). RNA Infrastructure and Networks (Vol. 722). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Merli, G. (2013). The transformation of the business model: business modelling. In L. Cinquini, A. D. Minin, & R. Varaldo (Eds.), New Business Models and Value Creation: A Service Science Perspective (pp. 67–86). Milano: 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 International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, November 4). The Paris Climate Change Agreement Was Officially Activated Today. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/paris-climate-change-agreement-officially-activated-today/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2001). Public Education: Meeting the Needs of Students With Limited English Proficiency (No. GAO-01-226). 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

Maldonado, J. A. (2010). Searching for Confirmation (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2002, April 3). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Support From Berlusconi. New York Times, p. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dagotto 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Dagotto 2007; McGuire and Beroza 2012).

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

Two authors: (McGuire and Beroza 2012)
Three or more authors: (Rogers et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
Abbreviation	Int. J. Concr. Struct. Mater.
ISSN (print)	1976-0485
ISSN (online)	2234-1315
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Ocean Engineering

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