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]

J.J. Tyson, Bringing cartoons to life, Nature 445 (2007) 823.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Meissner, R. Jaenisch, Generation of nuclear transfer-derived pluripotent ES cells from cloned Cdx2-deficient blastocysts, Nature 439 (2006) 212–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Courtial, J. Leach, M.J. Padgett, Fractals in pixellated video feedback, Nature 414 (2001) 864.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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D. Biggs, M.H. Holden, A. Braczkowski, C.N. Cook, E.J. Milner-Gulland, J. Phelps, R.J. Scholes, R.J. Smith, F.M. Underwood, V.M. Adams, J. Allan, H. Brink, R. Cooney, Y. Gao, J. Hutton, E. Macdonald-Madden, M. Maron, K.H. Redford, W.J. Sutherland, H.P. Possingham, Breaking the deadlock on ivory, Science 358 (2017) 1378–1381.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.M. Fant, Logically Determined Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

A. Mohammad, ed., Green Solvents I: Properties and Applications in Chemistry, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Nicolai, A. Crestani, Is There Still an Indication for Primary RPLND in Clinical Stage I Non-seminoma?, in: S. Krege (Ed.), Diagnosis and Management of Testicular Cancer: The European Point of View, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 29–54.

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]

E. Andrew, Want To Boost Vaccination? Don’t Punish Parents, Build Their Trust, IFLScience (2015).

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, Federal Fleets: Overall Increase in Number of Vehicles Masks That Some Agencies Decreased Their Fleets, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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J.I. Ryan, Analysis of the role of the Jackson Prairie in prehistoric/protohistoric settlement patterns using survey data from the Bienville National Forest, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2017.

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]

B. Shpigel, Z. Schonbrun, A Comeback and a Controversial Call Provide Some Crackle on Day 2, New York Times (2017) D3.

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