How to format your references using the Journal of Constructional Steel Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Constructional Steel Research. 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

[1]

S.L. Schnorr, The diverse microbiome of the hunter-gatherer, Nature 518 (2015) S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.A. Hofmann, P.A. Stevenson, Flight restores fight in crickets, Nature 403 (2000) 613.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.A. Nowak, C.E. Tarnita, E.O. Wilson, The evolution of eusociality, Nature 466 (2010) 1057–1062.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Qin, M. Gong, T. Shastry, M.C. Hersam, S. Ren, Charge-transfer induced magnetic field effects of nano-carbon heterojunctions, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6126.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Knudsen, A Biologist’s Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

W. Yu, H. He, N. Zhang, eds., Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2009: 6th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2009 Wuhan, China, May 26-29, 2009 Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Ahlswede, A. Ahlswede, I. Althöfer, C. Deppe, U. Tamm, On $$\lambda $$ -Capacities and Information Stability, in: A. Ahlswede, I. Althöfer, C. Deppe, U. Tamm (Eds.), Transmitting and Gaining Data: Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 2, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 299–321.

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 Constructional Steel Research.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, How Likely Is It That Your Job Will Be Replaced By A Robot?, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/find-out-if-your-job-risk-artificial-intelligence/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Aviation Manufacturing: Status of FAA’s Efforts to Improve Certification and Regulatory Consistency, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Cao, A Field-Scale Simulation of the Reversible Nanoparticle Adsorption for Enhancing Oil Recovery Using Hydrophilic Nanofluids, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2015.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Justices Take Up Battle Over Exxon Valdez Damages, New York Times (2008) A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Constructional Steel Research
Abbreviation	J. Constr. Steel Res.
ISSN (print)	0143-974X
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanics of Materials Building and Construction Metals and Alloys