How to format your references using the Journal of the Korean Society of Civil Engineers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Korean Society of Civil Engineers. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Mellars, P. (2011). “Palaeoanthropology: the earliest modern humans in Europe:” Nature, Vol. 479, No. 7374, pp. 483–485.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tham, W.-H. and Kennedy, A.T. (2015). “Malaria: a master lock for deadly parasites:” Nature, Vol. 522, No. 7555, pp. 158–159.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rieseberg, L.H., Wood, T.E. and Baack, E.J. (2006). “The nature of plant species:” Nature, Vol. 440, No. 7083, pp. 524–527.

A journal article with 16 or more authors

Likhtik, E., Popa, D., Apergis-Schoute, J., Fidacaro, G.A. and Paré, D. (2008). “Amygdala intercalated neurons are required for expression of fear extinction:” Nature, Vol. 454, No. 7204, pp. 642–645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benchaib, A. (2015). Advanced Control of AC/DC Power Networks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Weiner, R. and Kelley, M. (Eds.) (2016). Translating Molecular Biomarkers into Clinical Assays: Techniques and Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Baxley, T.P. and Boston, G.H. (2014). Always Carrying the Load. (In)visible Presence: Feminist Counter-Narratives of Young Adult Literature by Women of Color, Transgressions, Boston, G.H. ed., SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 49–63.

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 the Korean Society of Civil Engineers.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Scientists Finally Unlock The Secrets Behind Superconductivity, IFLScience, Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-finally-unlock-secrets-behind-superconductivity/ (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 (1988). Arthur Schoenhaut: 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

Sink, R.C. (2010). Exploring a high school community relations and parent involvement program, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Wagner, J. (2017). A Washington Monument To Pitching’s Fickle Nature: New York Times, p. SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mellars, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Mellars, 2011; Tham and Kennedy, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Tham and Kennedy, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Likhtik et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Korean Society of Civil Engineers
ISSN (print)	1015-6348
ISSN (online)	2287-934X
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