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

Steinberger, B. 2008. “Geophysics. Reconstructing Earth history in three dimensions.” Science, 322 (5903): 866–868.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lane, N., and W. Martin. 2010. “The energetics of genome complexity.” Nature, 467 (7318): 929–934.

A journal article with 3 authors

Leitch, D. B., D. K. Sarko, and K. C. Catania. 2014. “Brain mass and cranial nerve size in shrews and moles.” Sci. Rep., 4: 6241.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Some, S., Y. Xu, Y. Kim, Y. Yoon, H. Qin, A. Kulkarni, T. Kim, and H. Lee. 2013. “Highly sensitive and selective gas sensor using hydrophilic and hydrophobic graphenes.” Sci. Rep., 3: 1868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wasson, C. S. 2005. System Analysis, Design, and Development. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cho, B.-K., and T. Tominaga (Eds.). 2010. Moyamoya Disease Update. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Hughes, G. R. V., and S. Sangle. 2012. “Tendons and joints.” Clinician’s Manual on Lupus, G. R. V. Hughes and S. Sangle, eds., 19–21. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.

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

Davis, J. 2015. “First Trial of Pest-Resistant GM Wheat a Failure, Report Scientists.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-trial-pest-resistant-gm-wheat-failure-report-scientists/.

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. 2009. High Speed Passenger Rail: Effectively Using Recovery Act Funds for High Speed Rail Projects. 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

Ponder, K. 2017. “Easing Stress by Helping Others: How Corporate Volunteer Programs Impact the Stress of Employees Within an Organization.” Doctoral dissertation. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Ember, S., and M. M. Grynbaum. 2017. “How a Retraction Humbled CNN.” New York Times, September 5, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Steinberger 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lane and Martin 2010; Steinberger 2008).

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

Two authors: (Lane and Martin 2010)
Three or more authors: (Some et al. 2013)

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