How to format your references using the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Materials 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

Greer, A. 2003. “Chemistry. Enhanced: a view of unusual peroxides.” Science, 302 (5643): 235–236.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu, J.-Q., and T. D. Pollard. 2005. “Counting cytokinesis proteins globally and locally in fission yeast.” Science, 310 (5746): 310–314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suma, K., Y. Sumiyoshi, and Y. Endo. 2005. “The rotational spectrum and structure of the HOOO radical.” Science, 308 (5730): 1885–1886.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dagastine, R. R., R. Manica, S. L. Carnie, D. Y. C. Chan, G. W. Stevens, and F. Grieser. 2006. “Dynamic forces between two deformable oil droplets in water.” Science, 313 (5784): 210–213.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Britton, M. 2015. YouthNation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Batra, D. 2011. Interactive Co-segmentation of Objects in Image Collections. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, (A. Kowdle, D. Parikh, J. Luo, and T. Chen, eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yilbas, B. S., and S. Z. Shuja. 2013. “Laser Melting of Two Layer Materials.” Laser Surface Processing and Model Studies, Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology, S. Z. Shuja, ed., 59–80. 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 Materials in Civil Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “Astronomers Map Dark Matter.” IFLScience. IFLScience. 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

Government Accountability Office. 1998. FCC: Development of Technical and Spectrum Requirements for Meeting Public Safety Agency Communication Requirements Through 2010, Establishment of Rules and Requirements for Priority Access Service. 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

Watts, K. S. 2008. “The Effectiveness of a Social Story Intervention in Decreasing Disruptive Behavior in Autistic Children.” Doctoral dissertation. Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Kishkovsky, S. 2014. “Rev. Gleb Yakunin, 80, Russian Priest and Dissident.” New York Times, December 30, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greer 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Greer 2003; Wu and Pollard 2005).

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

Two authors: (Wu and Pollard 2005)
Three or more authors: (Dagastine et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Mater. Civ. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0899-1561
ISSN (online)	1943-5533
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanics of Materials Building and Construction General Materials Science