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

Burtis, K.C. (2002). “Development. Doublesex in the middle:” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 297, No. 5584, pp. 1135–1136.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bagnall, M.W. and McLean, D.L. (2014). “Modular organization of axial microcircuits in zebrafish:” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 343, No. 6167, pp. 197–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gneezy, U., Keenan, E.A. and Gneezy, A. (2014). “Behavioral economics. Avoiding overhead aversion in charity:” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 346, No. 6209, pp. 632–635.

A journal article with 16 or more authors

Schietinger, A., Philip, M., Yoshida, B.A., Azadi, P., Liu, H., Meredith, S.C. and Schreiber, H. (2006). “A mutant chaperone converts a wild-type protein into a tumor-specific antigen:” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 314, No. 5797, pp. 304–308.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cayoun, B.A. (2015). Mindfulness-integrated CBT for Well-being and Personal Growth, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bitner-Gregersen, E.M. (2013). Ship and Offshore Structure Design in Climate Change Perspective (L. I. Eide, T. Hørte and R. Skjong, Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tsitsiklis, J.N. and Xu, Y. (2012). Efficiency Loss in a Cournot Oligopoly with Convex Market Demand. Game Theory for Networks: Third International ICST Conference, GameNets 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 24-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Krishnamurthy, V., Zhao, Q., Huang, M. and Wen, Y. eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 63–76.

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). Plants “Communicate” Using Molecular Language, IFLScience, Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plants-communicate-using-molecular-language/ (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 (1992). Three Studies at the Local Level: 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

Lima, A.A. (2009). Racial and cultural identity formation of low-income Brazilian youth of African descent through their experiences and perceptions in formal and informal schools, Doctoral dissertation, 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

Kelly, M. (1992). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Perot Carries His Message To Arkansas: New York Times, p. 120.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burtis, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bagnall and McLean, 2014; Burtis, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Bagnall and McLean, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Schietinger et al., 2006)

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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