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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Pavement 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	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

Aldiss, B.W., 2001. Desperately seeking aliens. Nature, 409 (6823), 1080–1082.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gottesman, S. and Maurizi, M.R., 2001. Cell biology. Surviving starvation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293 (5530), 614–615.

A journal article with 3 authors

de Forges, B.R., Koslow, J.A., and Poore, G.C., 2000. Diversity and endemism of the benthic seamount fauna in the southwest Pacific. Nature, 405 (6789), 944–947.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Phillips, R.J., Davis, B.J., Tanaka, K.L., Byrne, S., Mellon, M.T., Putzig, N.E., Haberle, R.M., Kahre, M.A., Campbell, B.A., Carter, L.M., Smith, I.B., Holt, J.W., Smrekar, S.E., Nunes, D.C., Plaut, J.J., Egan, A.F., Titus, T.N., and Seu, R., 2011. Massive CO₂ ice deposits sequestered in the south polar layered deposits of Mars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332 (6031), 838–841.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Urick, V.J., Jr, Mckinney, J.D., and Williams, K.J., 2015. FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROWAVE PHOTONICS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

David, E., Gerding, E., Sarne, D., and Shehory, O., eds., 2010. Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets: AAMAS Workshop, AMEC 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009, and IJCAI Workshop, TADA 2009, Pasadena, CA, USA, July 13, 2009, Selected and Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Deutsch, M., 2015. A Framework for Thinking About Oppression and Conflict. In: M. Deutsch, ed. Morton Deutsch: A Pioneer in Developing Peace Psychology. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 71–104.

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 Pavement Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Watch Live Webcast Of Thursday’s Partial Solar Eclipse [online]. 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, 2007. Business Systems Modernization: DOD Needs to Fully Define Policies and Procedures for Institutionally Managing Investments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, No. GAO-07-538.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Collins, K., 2014. Learning to live in the layers: Traveling soul’s way through poetry. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Blinder, A., 2015. A Cheeseburger, a Suburban Traffic Stop and a Ticket for Eating While Driving. New York Times, 21 Jan, p. A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aldiss 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Aldiss 2001, Gottesman and Maurizi 2001).

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

Two authors: (Gottesman and Maurizi 2001)
Three or more authors: (Phillips et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Pavement Engineering
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pavement Eng.
ISSN (print)	1029-8436
ISSN (online)	1477-268X
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanics of Materials