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

Balco, Greg. 2009. “Climate. The Geographic Footprint of Glacier Change.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5927): 599–600.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laskar, J., and M. Gastineau. 2009. “Existence of Collisional Trajectories of Mercury, Mars and Venus with the Earth.” Nature 459 (7248): 817–819.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bartels, Albrecht, Dirk Heinecke, and Scott A. Diddams. 2009. “10-GHz Self-Referenced Optical Frequency Comb.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5953): 681.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

van Dokkum, Pieter, Shany Danieli, Yotam Cohen, Allison Merritt, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Roberto Abraham, Jean Brodie, et al. 2018. “A Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter.” Nature 555 (7698): 629–632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Riches, John. 2008. Galatians Through the Centuries. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Noguet, Dominique, Klaus Moessner, and Jacques Palicot, eds. 2016. Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks: 11th International Conference, CROWNCOM 2016, Grenoble, France, May 30 - June 1, 2016, Proceedings. Vol. 172. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Beckers, D. 2014. “Patterns of Facilitation.” In PNF in Practice: An Illustrated Guide, edited by Dominiek Beckers and Math Buck, 63–68. 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 Building Performance Simulation.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. “Achieving Universal Broadband: What The FCC Can And Cannot Do.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2002. DOD Overseas Schools: Compensation Adequate for Recruiting and Retaining Well-Qualified Teachers. GAO-03-19. 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

Trump, Rebecca K. 2010. “Self -Brand Overlap and Dissociation.” Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Kishkovsky, Sophia. 2000. “Oleg Yefremov, 72, Moscow Theater Director.” New York Times, June 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Balco 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Balco 2009; Laskar and Gastineau 2009).

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

Two authors: (Laskar and Gastineau 2009)
Three authors: (Bartels, Heinecke, and Diddams 2009)
4 or more authors: (van Dokkum et al. 2018)

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