How to format your references using the International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology citation style

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

[1]

S. DeWeerdt, Diagnostics: a testing journey, Nature 474 (2011) S20-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.F. Banfield, M. Young, Microbiology. Variety--the splice of life--in microbial communities, Science 326 (2009) 1198–1199.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.L. Werner, D. Barken, A. Hoffmann, Stimulus specificity of gene expression programs determined by temporal control of IKK activity, Science 309 (2005) 1857–1861.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.W. Lewis, O. Aharonson, J.P. Grotzinger, R.L. Kirk, A.S. McEwen, T.-A. Suer, Quasi-periodic bedding in the sedimentary rock record of Mars, Science 322 (2008) 1532–1535.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.B. Pick, Geo-Business GIS in the Digital Organization, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

I. Androulidakis, Industrial Espionage and Technical Surveillance Counter Measurers, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Harnesk, J. Lindström, Materializing Organizational Information Security, in: C. Keller, M. Wiberg, P.J. Ågerfalk, J.S.Z. Eriksson Lundström (Eds.), Nordic Contributions in IS Research: Third Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2012, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 17–20, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 76–94.

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 Research and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, New Study Reveals What A Single Energy Drink Does To Your Body, IFLScience (2015).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, The High-Speed Rail Investment Act of 2001 (S. 250), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.E. Gittens, Perceptions of the applicability of transformational leadership behavior to the leader role of academic department chairs: A study of selected universities in Virginia, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2009.

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

[1]

M.L. Dudziak, Trump and America’s Promise, New York Times (2016) A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology
ISSN (print)	1996-6814
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanics of Materials