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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Building 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	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. Rockey, Transparency: Two years of blogging the NIH, Nature 493 (2013) 298–299.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.H. Okubo, A.S. McEwen, Fracture-controlled paleo-fluid flow in Candor Chasma, Mars, Science 315 (2007) 983–985.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Nakatsuji, N. Kiyohara, T. Higo, Large anomalous Hall effect in a non-collinear antiferromagnet at room temperature, Nature 527 (2015) 212–215.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.J. Mandel, M.S. Wollenberg, E.V. Stabb, K.L. Visick, E.G. Ruby, A single regulatory gene is sufficient to alter bacterial host range, Nature 458 (2009) 215–218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Lam, Enterprise Risk Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

C. Plewa, J. Conduit, eds., Making a Difference Through Marketing: A Quest for Diverse Perspectives, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Ortner, M. Ustaszewski, M. Rittner, Late jurassic tectonics and sedimentation: breccias in the Unken syncline, central Northern Calcareous Alps, in: N. Froitzheim, S.M. Schmid (Eds.), Orogenic Processes in the Alpine Collision Zone, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2009: pp. S55–S71.

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 Building Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, 52 Percent Of The British Public Think The Moon Landings Were Faked, Claims Survey, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/52-percent-of-the-british-public-think-the-moon-landings-were-faked-claims-survey/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Administrative Systems: NASA Should Reassess Its AIM Program and Rescind Its IBM-Compatible Policy, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G.L. Davies, An analysis of Pat Metheny’s and Lyle Mays’s “Third Wind”: Arranging techniques and performance considerations, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

R. Sulcas, Alla Sizova, Star Kirov Ballerina, 75, New York Times (2014) B19.

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	Journal of Building Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Build. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2352-7102
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanics of Materials Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Building and Construction Architecture