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

Piattelli-Palmarini, M. 2002. “Grammar: the barest essentials.” Nature, 416 (6877): 129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Satheesh, S. K., and V. Ramanathan V. 2000. “Large differences in tropical aerosol forcing at the top of the atmosphere and Earth’s surface.” Nature, 405 (6782): 60–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dominguez, P., A. G. Jacobson, and R. P. S. Jefferies. 2002. “Paired gill slits in a fossil with a calcite skeleton.” Nature, 417 (6891): 841–844.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Toga, T., I. Kuraoka, S. Watanabe, E. Nakano, S. Takeuchi, C. Nishigori, K. Sugasawa, and S. Iwai. 2014. “Fluorescence detection of cellular nucleotide excision repair of damaged DNA.” Sci. Rep., 4: 5578.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ippolito, L. J., Jr. 2017. Satellite Communications Systems Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Artemov, S., and A. Nerode (Eds.). 2013. Logical Foundations of Computer Science: International Symposium, LFCS 2013, San Diego, CA, USA, January 6-8, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Grigori, L., M. Jacquelin, and A. Khabou. 2014. “Performance Predictions of Multilevel Communication Optimal LU and QR Factorizations on Hierarchical Platforms.” Supercomputing: 29th International Conference, ISC 2014, Leipzig, Germany, June 22-26, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, J. M. Kunkel, T. Ludwig, and H. W. Meuer, eds., 76–92. 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

O`Callaghan, J. 2016. “SpaceX Has Delayed Its First Manned Launch To 2018.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-delays-first-manned-launch-to-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. 1991. Embedded Computer Systems: C-17 Software Development Problems. 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

BenVau, L. 2014. “Effects of larval Nosema ceranae infection on adult honey bee (Apis mellifera) morphology and physiology.” Doctoral dissertation. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Williams, J. 2017. “An Actor’s ‘Always-Changing’ Bond With Faith.” New York Times, April 16, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Piattelli-Palmarini 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Piattelli-Palmarini 2002; Satheesh and Ramanathan 2000).

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

Two authors: (Satheesh and Ramanathan 2000)
Three or more authors: (Toga et al. 2014)

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