How to format your references using the Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring. 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

Ravussin E (2005) Physiology. A NEAT way to control weight? Science 307:530–531

A journal article with 2 authors

Kovács IA, Barabási A-L (2015) Network science: Destruction perfected. Nature 524:38–39

A journal article with 3 authors

Thomson KS, Sutton M, Thomas B (2003) A larval Devonian lungfish. Nature 426:833–834

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Buban JP, Matsunaga K, Chen J, et al (2006) Grain boundary strengthening in alumina by rare earth impurities. Science 311:212–215

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vanbésien O (2012) Artificial Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Holcman D (2015) Stochastic Narrow Escape in Molecular and Cellular Biology: Analysis and Applications. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Freitas AA (2008) A Review of evolutionary Algorithms for Data Mining. In: Maimon O, Rokach L (eds) Soft Computing for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 79–111

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 Civil Structural Health Monitoring.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) The Ganges And Yamuna Rivers Given Same Legal Rights As Humans. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-ganges-and-yamuna-rivers-given-same-legal-rights-as-humans/. 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 (1992) NASA Certification of Funds. 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

Tiedemann-Fuller PM (2008) A descriptive Rorschach study of children who have experienced chronic complex abuse. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Conte L (2011) Scouting Report. New York Times E6

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 Civil Structural Health Monitoring
Abbreviation	J. Civ. Struct. Health Monit.
ISSN (print)	2190-5452
ISSN (online)	2190-5479
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality