How to format your references using the Road Materials and Pavement Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Road Materials and Pavement Design. 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

Adams, J. U. (2015). Genetics: Big hopes for big data. Nature, 527(7578), S108-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Birney, E., & Soranzo, N. (2015). Human genomics: The end of the start for population sequencing. Nature, 526(7571), 52–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith, J., Van Dyken, J. D., & Zee, P. C. (2010). A generalization of Hamilton’s rule for the evolution of microbial cooperation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5986), 1700–1703.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Nakamichi, Y., Yoshioka, A., Kawai, S., & Murata, K. (2013). Conferring the ability to utilize inorganic polyphosphate on ATP-specific NAD kinase. Scientific Reports, 3, 2632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, D. L., & Arlow, P. C. (2015). Industrial Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Malaval, P. (2014). Aerospace Marketing Management: A Handbook for the Entire Value Chain (C. Bénaroya & J. Aflalo, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Liang, B., Chen, C., Guan, Y.-H., & Huang, X.-Y. (2015). Estimating the Missing Traffic Speeds via Continuous Conditional Random Fields. In R. Cai, K. Chen, L. Hong, X. Yang, R. Zhang, & L. Zou (Eds.), Web Technologies and Applications: APWeb 2015 Workshops, BSD, WDMA, and BDAT, Guangzhou, China, September 18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 35–43). Springer International Publishing.

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 Road Materials and Pavement Design.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, March 3). The First Life Forms Might Not Have Needed Phosphate. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/the-first-life-forms-might-not-have-needed-phosphate/

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. (1994). Early Childhood Programs: Multiple Programs and Overlapping Target Groups (HEHS-95-4FS). 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

Miller, N. Y. (2017). Nutrition education series for female club soccer players 14 to 18 years of age [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

Vecsey, G. (2010, June 16). Of Horns and Whines And the Humble Earplug. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adams, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Adams, 2015; Birney & Soranzo, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Birney & Soranzo, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Nakamichi et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Road Materials and Pavement Design
Abbreviation	Road Mater. Pavement Des.
ISSN (print)	1468-0629
ISSN (online)	2164-7402
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering