How to format your references using the International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment. 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

Parthasarathi, A., 2003. India: A champion of new technologies. Nature 422, 17–18.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray, R.D., Jordan, F.M., 2000. Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion. Nature 405, 1052–1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tahir, M., Sabeeh, K., Schwingenschlögl, U., 2013. Quantum capacitance of an ultrathin topological insulator film in a magnetic field. Sci. Rep. 3, 1261.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ren, S., Wang, Yaling, Yue, F., Cheng, X., Dang, R., Qiao, Q., Sun, X., Li, X., Jiang, Q., Yao, J., Qin, H., Wang, G., Liao, X., Gao, D., Xia, J., Zhang, J., Hu, B., Yan, J., Wang, Yanjiang, Xu, M., Han, Y., Tang, X., Chen, X., He, C., Hu, Z., 2018. The paraventricular thalamus is a critical thalamic area for wakefulness. Science 362, 429–434.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Theodore, L., Kunz, R.G., 2005. Nanotechnology: Environmental Implications and Solutions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yoshida, H., Sakas, G., Linguraru, M.G. (Eds.), 2012. Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications: Third International Workshop, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2011, Toronto, ON, Canada, September 18, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Luo, A.C.J., 2012. Synchronization of Dynamical Systems in Sense of Metric Functionals of Specific Constraints, in: Luo, A.C.J., Sun, J.-Q. (Eds.), Complex Systems: Fractionality, Time-Delay and Synchronization, Nonlinear Physical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 205–298.

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 Sustainable Built Environment.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Could We Be Wrong About The Speed Of Light? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/could-we-be-wrong-about-speed-light/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1996. Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments (No. AA-96-30(1)). 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

Reig, M.A., 2008. Cross-Dialectal Variability in Propositional Anaphora: A Quantitative and Pragmatic Study of Null Objects in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2006. Justices Uphold State Rules In Decision on Dam Licenses. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parthasarathi, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gray and Jordan, 2000; Parthasarathi, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Gray and Jordan, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Ren et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment
Abbreviation	Int. J. Sustain. Built Environ.
ISSN (print)	2212-6090
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Ecological Modelling Environmental Engineering Urban Studies