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

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

Canup, Robin. 2015. “Planetary Science: The Moon’s Tilt for Gold.” Nature 527 (7579): 455–456.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cai, H. N., and P. Shen. 2001. “Effects of Cis Arrangement of Chromatin Insulators on Enhancer-Blocking Activity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5503): 493–495.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lebrun, Edward G., Nathan T. Jones, and Lawrence E. Gilbert. 2014. “Chemical Warfare among Invaders: A Detoxification Interaction Facilitates an Ant Invasion.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6174): 1014–1017.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Vilkov, O., A. Fedorov, D. Usachov, L. V. Yashina, A. V. Generalov, K. Borygina, N. I. Verbitskiy, A. Grüneis, and D. V. Vyalikh. 2013. “Controlled Assembly of Graphene-Capped Nickel, Cobalt and Iron Silicides.” Scientific Reports 3: 2168.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolson, Robert F., and William R. Clarke. 2002. Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Biomedical Data: Woolson/Statistical. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dourish, Paul, and Adrian Friday, eds. 2006. UbiComp 2006: Ubiquitous Computing: 8th International Conference, UbiComp 2006 Orange County, CA, USA, September 17-21, 2006 Proceedings. Vol. 4206. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Guo, Xiao-Ai Zhang, Hua Wang, Xin Wang, Chun-Ling Meng, Chu-Yan Chan, David Tai Wai Yew, et al. 2012. “Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived from Human Bone Marrow, Umbilical Cord and Placenta: Implication in the Migration.” In Human Cell Transformation: Role of Stem Cells and the Microenvironment, edited by Johng S. Rhim and Richard Kremer, 51–68. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. New York, NY: 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 Building Performance Simulation.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “Zoo Diets Are Making Monkey Gut Bacteria More Human-Like.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/zoo-diets-are-making-monkey-gut-bacteria-more-humanlike/.

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. Highway Safety: Federal and State Efforts to Address Rural Road Safety Challenges. GAO-04-663. 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

Rey, Daniel. 2017. “Chaos, Observability and Symplectic Structure in Optimal Estimation.” Doctoral dissertation, La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Billard, Mary. 2010. “Feeling Free of All Ties.” New York Times, April 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Canup 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Canup 2015; Cai and Shen 2001).

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

Two authors: (Cai and Shen 2001)
Three authors: (Lebrun, Jones, and Gilbert 2014)
4 or more authors: (Vilkov et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Building Performance Simulation
Abbreviation	J. Build. Perform. Simul.
ISSN (print)	1940-1493
ISSN (online)	1940-1507
Scope	Computer Science Applications Building and Construction Architecture Modelling and Simulation