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

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

Kennedy, S. 2008. “Epidemiology. Why can’t we test our way to absolute food safety?” Science, 322 (5908): 1641–1643.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nachev, P., and M. Husain. 2007. “Comment on ‘Detecting awareness in the vegetative state.’” Science, 315 (5816): 1221; author reply 1221.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, J. C., J. N. Beilke, and L. L. Lanier. 2009. “Adaptive immune features of natural killer cells.” Nature, 457 (7229): 557–561.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kayagaki, N., S. Warming, M. Lamkanfi, L. Vande Walle, S. Louie, J. Dong, K. Newton, Y. Qu, J. Liu, S. Heldens, J. Zhang, W. P. Lee, M. Roose-Girma, and V. M. Dixit. 2011. “Non-canonical inflammasome activation targets caspase-11.” Nature, 479 (7371): 117–121.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meinert, C. L. 2012. Clinical Trials Dictionary. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kitanovski, A. 2015. Magnetocaloric Energy Conversion: From Theory to Applications. Green Energy and Technology, (J. Tušek, U. Tomc, U. Plaznik, M. Ožbolt, and A. Poredoš, eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Klumpp, J., and M. J. Loessner. 2014. “Detection of Bacteria with Bioluminescent Reporter Bacteriophage.” Bioluminescence: Fundamentals and Applications in Biotechnology - Volume 1, Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, G. Thouand and R. Marks, eds., 155–171. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Journal of Architectural Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “Are We Prepared For The Next Big Mediterranean Tsunami?” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/are-we-prepared-next-big-mediterranean-tsunami/.

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. 1976. NASA’s Choice of a Location for Its Proposed Lunar Curatorial Facility. 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

Igbojekwe, S. C. 2014. “Development of Environmental Friendly Cement for Oil and Gas Well Application.” Doctoral dissertation. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Crow, K. 2001. “Singed From the Attack, Trees Find a Safer Home.” New York Times, November 11, 2001.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kennedy 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Kennedy 2008; Nachev and Husain 2007).

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

Two authors: (Nachev and Husain 2007)
Three or more authors: (Kayagaki et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Architectural Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Archit. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1076-0431
ISSN (online)	1943-5568
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Civil and Structural Engineering Building and Construction Architecture