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

Howat, Ian. 2010. “Journal Club. A Glaciologist Ponders Iceberg Calving from a Safe Distance.” Nature 466 (7308): 799.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cane, M. A., and M. Evans. 2000. “CLIMATE VARIABILITY: Enhanced: Do the Tropics Rule?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 290 (5494): 1107–1108.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tay, Yvonne, John Rinn, and Pier Paolo Pandolfi. 2014. “The Multilayered Complexity of CeRNA Crosstalk and Competition.” Nature 505 (7483): 344–352.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tonolini, Francesco, Susan Chan, Megan Agnew, Alan Lindsay, and Jonathan Leach. 2014. “Reconstructing High-Dimensional Two-Photon Entangled States via Compressive Sensing.” Scientific Reports 4 (October): 6542.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Neff, David J., and Randal C. Moss. 2011. The Future of Nonprofits. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Solaro, R. John, and Jil C. Tardiff, eds. 2013. Biophysics of the Failing Heart: Physics and Biology of Heart Muscle. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kafadar, Ali Metin, M. Uzan, T. Tanriverdi, G. Z. Sanus, H. Uzun, M. Y. Kaynar, and C. Kuday. 2008. “Cerebrospinal Fluid Soluble Fas and Fas Ligand Levels after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage.” In Cerebral Vasospasm: New Strategies in Research and Treatment, edited by Talat Kırış and John H. Zhang, 17–22. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum. Vienna: 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. “Living Near The Sea Can Improve Your Mental Health.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/living-near-sea-can-help-improve-mental-health/.

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. 1994. Aviation Security: Additional Actions Needed to Meet Domestic and International Challenges. RCED-94-38. 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

Rostambeigi, Narges. 2010. “Analyzing the Correlates of Patients’ Adoption of Preventative Health Services: Perceived Risk, Cost and Availability of Health Care Services.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. 2003. “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Writer-Politician To Be Freed.” New York Times, June 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Howat 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Howat 2010; Cane and Evans 2000).

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

Two authors: (Cane and Evans 2000)
Three authors: (Tay, Rinn, and Pandolfi 2014)
4 or more authors: (Tonolini et al. 2014)

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