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]

Purnell B. New release: the complete guide to organ repair. Introduction. Science. 2008;322:1489.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kimble J, Page DC. The mysteries of sexual identity. The germ cell’s perspective. Science. 2007;316:400–401.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Spinner M, Westhoff G, Gorb SN. Subdigital setae of chameleon feet: friction-enhancing microstructures for a wide range of substrate roughness. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5481.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Hunt B, Pratt E, Gadagkar V, et al. Evidence for a superglass state in solid 4He. Science. 2009;324:632–636.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Arboleda H, Royer J-C. Model-Driven and Software Product Line Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Marsico G, editor. Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100: Cultivating Possibilities. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Taylor RK. Consumerism: A Dead Issue? In: Lindquist JD, editor. Proceedings of the 1984 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 18–22.

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. NASA Debuts New Planet Imager To Look At Worlds Around Other Stars [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-debuts-new-planet-imager-to-look-at-worlds-around-other-stars/.

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. An Experimental Computer Output Microfilm Service Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976. Report No.: 092324. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hernandez AN. Connecting the Community: A Grant Proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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]

Gorman J. In Defense of the Donkey. New York Times. 2016 Oct 31;D1.

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