How to format your references using the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management citation style

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

Yarus, M. 2011. “Molecular biology. Climbing in 190 dimensions.” Science, 332 (6026): 181–182.

A journal article with 2 authors

Navarro, M., and K. Gull. 2001. “A pol I transcriptional body associated with VSG mono-allelic expression in Trypanosoma brucei.” Nature, 414 (6865): 759–763.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Doorn, G. S., P. Edelaar, and F. J. Weissing. 2009. “On the origin of species by natural and sexual selection.” Science, 326 (5960): 1704–1707.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Okada, C., E. Yamashita, S. J. Lee, S. Shibata, J. Katahira, A. Nakagawa, Y. Yoneda, and T. Tsukihara. 2009. “A high-resolution structure of the pre-microRNA nuclear export machinery.” Science, 326 (5957): 1275–1279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tourlakis, G. 2008. Mathematical Logic. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Khine, M. S. (Ed.). 2015. Science Education in East Asia: Pedagogical Innovations and Research-informed Practices. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hu, Y., and S. Dessloch. 2014. “Defining Temporal Operators for Column Oriented NoSQL Databases.” Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 18th East European Conference, ADBIS 2014, Ohrid, Macedonia, September 7-10, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Y. Manolopoulos, G. Trajcevski, and M. Kon-Popovska, eds., 39–55. 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 Construction Engineering and Management.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2016. “So What If Some Female Olympians Have High Testosterone?” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/so-what-if-some-female-olympians-have-high-testosterone/.

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. 1983. Opportunities for Improving the Management of DOD Computer Systems. 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

Sarkissian, L. N. 2009. “An examination of course-level factors contributing to student success.” 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

Saslow, L. 2006. “Loop Drawbridge to Try Car-Friendly Schedule.” New York Times, April 30, 2006.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yarus 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Navarro and Gull 2001; Yarus 2011).

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

Two authors: (Navarro and Gull 2001)
Three or more authors: (Okada et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Abbreviation	J. Constr. Eng. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0733-9364
ISSN (online)	1943-7862
Scope	Strategy and Management Industrial relations Civil and Structural Engineering Building and Construction