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

Nienow, P. 2014. “Geoscience: The plumbing of Greenland’s ice.” Nature, 514 (7520): 38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bobrow, M., and S. Thomas. 2000. “Patents in a genetic age.” Nature, 409 (6822): 763–764.

A journal article with 3 authors

Changela, A., R. J. DiGate, and A. Mondragón. 2001. “Crystal structure of a complex of a type IA DNA topoisomerase with a single-stranded DNA molecule.” Nature, 411 (6841): 1077–1081.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bennett, E. J., T. A. Shaler, B. Woodman, K.-Y. Ryu, T. S. Zaitseva, C. H. Becker, G. P. Bates, H. Schulman, and R. R. Kopito. 2007. “Global changes to the ubiquitin system in Huntington’s disease.” Nature, 448 (7154): 704–708.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sutt, J., I. Lill, and O. Müürsepp. 2013. The Engineer’s Manual of Construction Site Planning. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Wilcock, N. 2016. Hartmut Elsenhans and a Critique of Capitalism: Conversations on Theory and Policy Implications. (C. Scholz, ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Alcaraz, C., and J. Lopez. 2012. “Addressing Situational Awareness in Critical Domains of a Smart Grid.” Network and System Security: 6th International Conference, NSS 2012, Wuyishan, Fujian, China, November 21-23, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, L. Xu, E. Bertino, and Y. Mu, eds., 58–71. 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

Carpineti, C. 2017. “This Horrifying Animation Shows You How A Woman’s Organs Move During Pregnancy.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-horrifying-animation-shows-you-how-a-womans-organs-move-during-pregnancy/.

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. 1994. Federal Judicial Space Follow-up. 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

Hsu, Y.-C. 2009. “A cultural psychosocial model for depression in elder care institutions: The roles of Socially Supportive Activity and self-transcendence.” Doctoral dissertation. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Wines, M. 2014. “It Only Seems That Political Corruption Is Rampant.” New York Times, January 26, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nienow 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bobrow and Thomas 2000; Nienow 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bobrow and Thomas 2000)
Three or more authors: (Bennett et al. 2007)

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