How to format your references using the Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials. 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]

Swing K. Day of reckoning for Ecuador’s biodiversity. Nature. 2011;469(7330):267.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lee J-H, Paull TT. Direct activation of the ATM protein kinase by the Mre11/Rad50/Nbs1 complex. Science. 2004;304(5667):93–96.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lisiecki LE, Raymo ME, Curry WB. Atlantic overturning responses to Late Pleistocene climate forcings. Nature. 2008;456(7218):85–88.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Alghamedi R, Vasiliev M, Nur-E-Alam M, et al. Spectrally-selective all-inorganic scattering luminophores for solar energy-harvesting clear glass windows. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Werner M. Global Displacements. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Zhang J, editor. Applied Informatics and Communication: International Conference, ICAIC 2011, Xi’an, China, August 20-21, 2011, Proceedings, Part V. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Beattie M, Bulacu D, Raianu Ş. Balanced Bilinear Forms for Corings. In: Brzeziński T, Gómez Pardo JL, Shestakov I, et al., editors. Modules and Comodules. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2008. p. 87–99.

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 Sustainable Cement-Based Materials.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. SpaceX Just Teased Us With A Video Of Its Biggest Rocket Ever. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. D.C. Charter Schools: Strengthening Monitoring and Process When Schools Close Could Improve Accountability and Ease Student Transitions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005. Report No.: GAO-06-73. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hill L. Unique forms of knowledge and curriculum in hip-hop pedagogy [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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]

Barnes B. ‘La La Land’ Leads the Race for the Globes. New York Times. 2016 Dec 12;C1.

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 Sustainable Cement-Based Materials
ISSN (print)	2165-0373
ISSN (online)	2165-0381
Scope	Waste Management and Disposal Ceramics and Composites