How to format your references using the Journal of Composites for Construction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Composites for Construction. 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

Barrett, T. A. 2012. “Developmental biology. Intestinal wound healing requires a Wnt balancing act.” Science, 338 (6103): 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vandermeer, J., and I. Perfecto. 2006. “A keystone mutualism drives pattern in a power function.” Science, 311 (5763): 1000–1002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schnupp, J. W., T. D. Mrsic-Flogel, and A. J. King. 2001. “Linear processing of spatial cues in primary auditory cortex.” Nature, 414 (6860): 200–204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, Q., M. Le May, N. Lacroix, and J. Chen. 2013. “Induction of Pax3 gene expression impedes cardiac differentiation.” Sci. Rep., 3: 2498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Çapin, T. K., I. S. Pandzic, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, and D. Thalmann. 2001. Avatars in Networked Virtual Environments. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ahima, R. S. (Ed.). 2016. Metabolic Syndrome: A Comprehensive Textbook. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hug, D., and M. Reitzner. 2016. “Introduction to Stochastic Geometry.” Stochastic Analysis for Poisson Point Processes: Malliavin Calculus, Wiener-Itô Chaos Expansions and Stochastic Geometry, Bocconi & Springer Series, G. Peccati and M. Reitzner, eds., 145–184. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Composites for Construction.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. 2016. “The LHC Is Starting To Produce Charmed Twins More Than Singles.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/the-lhc-is-starting-to-produce-charmed-twins-more-than-singles/.

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. 1997. Hispanic Employment: Best Practices Used by Selected Agencies and Companies. 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

Davis, L. V. 2017. “Oxidation Effects on the Magnetic Properties of Iron Phthalocyanine Thin Films.” 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

Feeney, K. 2011. “Glorifying the Chickpea.” New York Times, April 3, 2011.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barrett 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Barrett 2012; Vandermeer and Perfecto 2006).

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

Two authors: (Vandermeer and Perfecto 2006)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Composites for Construction
Abbreviation	J. Compos. Constr.
ISSN (print)	1090-0268
ISSN (online)	1943-5614
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Building and Construction Ceramics and Composites