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

Ambrose SH (2006) Anthropology. A tool for all seasons. Science 314:930–931

A journal article with 2 authors

Boroson TA, Lauer TR (2009) A candidate sub-parsec supermassive binary black hole system. Nature 458:53–55

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang F, Chen X, Vitousek P (2013) Chinese agriculture: An experiment for the world. Nature 497:33–35

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kanold PO, Kara P, Reid RC, Shatz CJ (2003) Role of subplate neurons in functional maturation of visual cortical columns. Science 301:521–525

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moskowitz HR, Muñoz AM, Gacula MC Jr (2008) Viewpoints and Controversies in Sensory Science and Consumer Product Testing. Food & Nutrition Press, Inc., Trumbull, Connecticut, USA

An edited book

Sakurai A, Hasida K, Nitta K (2007) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004 Conferences and Workshops, Niigata, Japan, June 23-27, 2003 and Kanazawa, Japan, May 31 - June 4, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kovarik P, Castiglia V, Janos M (2014) Type I Interferons in Immune Defense Against Streptococci. In: Parker D (ed) Bacterial Activation of Type I Interferons. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 43–59

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

Andrew E (2015) Aurora Borealis Illuminates the Skies. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/aurora-borealis-illuminates-skies-around-world/. 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 (2005) Aviation Security: Systematic Planning Needed to Optimize the Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems. 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

McKinney RW (2017) The Optimal Balance of Liberal Education and Career Readiness in the Context of the American Promise: A Critical Analysis of the American Association of Colleges and Universities Liberal Education and America’s Promise Challenge. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Cooper M (2017) Singing With, Not Through, the Nose. New York Times C1

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