How to format your references using the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 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

Stella, N. 2011. “Cell biology. Anatomy of prostaglandin signals.” Science, 334 (6057): 768–769.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shenoy, S. K., and H. A. Rockman. 2011. “Cardiovascular biology: heart fails without pump partner.” Nature, 477 (7366): 546–547.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wood, M. J., G. Storz, and N. Tjandra. 2004. “Structural basis for redox regulation of Yap1 transcription factor localization.” Nature, 430 (7002): 917–921.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liao, T., Z. Sun, C. Sun, S. X. Dou, and D. J. Searles. 2014. “Electronic coupling and catalytic effect on H2 evolution of MoS2/graphene nanocatalyst.” Sci. Rep., 4: 6256.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gunn, D. M. 2016. Judges. Malden, MA, USA: Blackwell Publishing.

An edited book

Priami, C., R.-J. Back, and I. Petre (Eds.). 2009. Transactions on Computational Systems Biology XI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Morgan, C. 2012. “Elementary Probability Theory in the Eindhoven Style.” Mathematics of Program Construction: 11th International Conference, MPC 2012, Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, J. Gibbons and P. Nogueira, eds., 48–73. 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 Computing in Civil Engineering.

Blog post

Evans, K. 2016. “10 Survival Myths That Might Get You Killed.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/10-survival-myths-that-might-get-you-killed/.

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. 1980. Comments on Proposed F.P.M.R. Amendment. 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

Shaker, G. 2008. “Off the track: The full-time nontenure -track faculty experience in English.” Doctoral dissertation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

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. 2008. “Homey Food That Speaks Of Brazil.” New York Times, April 27, 2008.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stella 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Shenoy and Rockman 2011; Stella 2011).

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

Two authors: (Shenoy and Rockman 2011)
Three or more authors: (Liao et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Civ. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0887-3801
ISSN (online)	1943-5487
Scope	Computer Science Applications Civil and Structural Engineering