How to format your references using the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. 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

Rombough, P. 2003. “Development rate: Modelling developmental time and temperature.” Nature, 424 (6946): 268–9; discussion 270.

A journal article with 2 authors

Semple, C. A. M., and M. S. Taylor. 2009. “Molecular biology. The structure of change.” Science, 323 (5912): 347–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

GrandPré, T., S. Li, and S. M. Strittmatter. 2002. “Nogo-66 receptor antagonist peptide promotes axonal regeneration.” Nature, 417 (6888): 547–551.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Simonetti, A., S. Marzi, A. G. Myasnikov, A. Fabbretti, M. Yusupov, C. O. Gualerzi, and B. P. Klaholz. 2008. “Structure of the 30S translation initiation complex.” Nature, 455 (7211): 416–420.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yavaş, M. 2011. Applied English Phonology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Pahl, G. 2007. Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach. (W. Beitz, J. Feldhusen, and K.-H. Grote, eds.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schnidman, E. A., and W. D. MacMillan. 2016. “Centralization: The Rise of Technocracy.” How the Fed Moves Markets: Central Bank Analysis for the Modern Era, W. D. MacMillan, ed., 31–38. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

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 Performance of Constructed Facilities.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2017. “The Majority Of Europeans Say They Are Already Feeling The Impact Of Climate Change.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-majority-of-europeans-say-they-are-already-feeling-the-impact-of-climate-change/.

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. 1994. Illegal Aliens: Assessing Estimates of Financial Burden on California. 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

Zamudio, R. 2015. “From community college to 4-year institutions: Latinas’ successful completion of STEM baccalaureate degrees.” 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

Vecsey, G. 2010. “Campus Kickoffs: Don’t Think Too Hard.” New York Times, August 26, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rombough 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Rombough 2003; Semple and Taylor 2009).

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

Two authors: (Semple and Taylor 2009)
Three or more authors: (Simonetti et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Abbreviation	J. Perform. Constr. Facil.
ISSN (print)	0887-3828
ISSN (online)	1943-5509
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Building and Construction