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

Smaglik, P. (2005). “A question of age:” Nature, Vol. 434, No. 7037, p. 1159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Podgornaia, A.I. and Laub, M.T. (2015). “Protein evolution. Pervasive degeneracy and epistasis in a protein-protein interface:” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 347, No. 6222, pp. 673–677.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saitta, E.K.H., Legron-Rodriguez, T. and Bowdon, M.A. (2013). “IBI* series winner. An inquiry into the water around us:” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 341, No. 6149, pp. 971–972.

A journal article with 16 or more authors

Aalto, R., Maurice-Bourgoin, L., Dunne, T., Montgomery, D.R., Nittrouer, C.A. and Guyot, J.-L. (2003). “Episodic sediment accumulation on Amazonian flood plains influenced by El Niño/Southern Oscillation:” Nature, Vol. 425, No. 6957, pp. 493–497.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt, P., Körber, R. and Coppers, M. (2003). Sieben und Siebmaschinen, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Jacobson, M.J. and Reimann, P. (Eds.) (2010). Designs for Learning Environments of the Future: International Perspectives from the Learning Sciences, Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Heinisch, M., Reichel, E.K. and Jakoby, B. (2012). On the Modelling of Resonating Fluid Sensors. Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2011: 13th International Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 6-11, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F. and Quesada-Arencibia, A. eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–32.

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

Luntz, S. (2014). DNA Survives Re-Entry Into Earth’s Atmosphere, IFLScience, Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/dna-survives-atmospheric-re-entry/ (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). Financial Reporting: NASA Can Improve Compliance With GAO Standards and Treasury Requirements: 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

Hutter-Thomas, S. (2017). Sociocultural Evolution: An Examination of Unorthodox Elective Body Modification, Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Greenhouse, L. (2006). Antitrust Policy Ambiguity To Be on Justices’ Docket: New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Podgornaia and Laub, 2015; Smaglik, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Podgornaia and Laub, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Aalto et al., 2003)

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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