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

Smaglik, P. 2002. “Going green: Ireland.” Nature, 416 (6878): 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sriver, R. L., and M. Huber. 2007. “Observational evidence for an ocean heat pump induced by tropical cyclones.” Nature, 447 (7144): 577–580.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, K., L. Lu, and S. Suresh. 2009. “Strengthening materials by engineering coherent internal boundaries at the nanoscale.” Science, 324 (5925): 349–352.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Oh, C., S. Park, E. K. Lee, and Y. J. Yoo. 2013. “Downregulation of ubiquitin level via knockdown of polyubiquitin gene Ubb as potential cancer therapeutic intervention.” Sci. Rep., 3: 2623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beach, D. 1996. The Responsible Conduct of Research. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Halgamuge, S. K., and L. Wang (Eds.). 2005. Classification and Clustering for Knowledge Discovery. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Headleand, C. J., J. Jackson, B. Williams, L. Priday, W. J. Teahan, and L. Ap Cenydd. 2016. “How the Perceived Identity of a NPC Companion Influences Player Behavior.” Transactions on Computational Science XXVIII: Special Issue on Cyberworlds and Cybersecurity, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, M. L. Gavrilova, C. J. K. Tan, and A. Sourin, eds., 88–107. 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 Performance of Constructed Facilities.

Blog post

Hale, T. 2016. “Human Doctors Are Still Better Than Online Symptom Checkers.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-doctors-are-still-better-than-online-symptom-checkers/.

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. 1990. Continuing Professional Education: Federal GS-510 Accountants’ Report. 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

Johnson, S. 2017. “Searching for Identity and Truth: How Letter Writing Creates Identity in Victorian Literature.” 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

Cooper, M. 2017. “Behind the Salzburg Festival, a Soft-Spoken Pianist With Modern Flair.” New York Times, August 18, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Sriver and Huber 2007).

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

Two authors: (Sriver and Huber 2007)
Three or more authors: (Oh et al. 2013)

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