How to format your references using the Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation. 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

Fuyuno I (2007) Plastic promises. Nature 446:715

A journal article with 2 authors

Wynia MK, Gostin L (2002) Medicine. The bioterrorist threat and access to health care. Science 296:1613

A journal article with 3 authors

Stajic J, Coontz R, Osborne I (2011) Superconductivity. Happy 100th, superconductivity! Introduction. Science 332:189

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Anderson WA, Banerjee U, Drennan CL, et al (2011) Science education. Changing the culture of science education at research universities. Science 331:152–153

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flaus J-M (2013) Risk Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Ferracchiati FC (2011) Windows Phone Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Zhong N, Huang J-J (2015) Granular Structures Induced by Interval Sets and Rough Sets. In: Yao Y, Hu Q, Yu H, Grzymala-Busse JW (eds) Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing: 15th International Conference, RSFDGrC 2015, Tianjin, China, November 20-23, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 49–60

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 Pathology and Rehabilitation.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) Melting Ice And Satellites: How To Measure The Earth’s ‘Wiggle.’ In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/melting-ice-and-satellites-how-to-measure-the-earths-wiggle/. 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 (2004) Telecommunications: Wire-Based Competition Benefited Consumers In Selected Markets. 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

Amini B (2015) Linear Matrix Inequality Method for Periodic Systems. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Vecsey G (2011) U.S. Soccer’s Home And the World’s New Destination. New York Times B13

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 Pathology and Rehabilitation
Abbreviation	J. Build. Pathol. Rehabil.
ISSN (print)	2365-3159
ISSN (online)	2365-3167
Scope