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

Marín, O. (2010). Journal club. A developmental neurobiologist looks at how damage induces cell birth in the adult brain. Nature, 465(7297), 401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galonić, D. P., & Gin, D. Y. (2007). Chemical glycosylation in the synthesis of glycoconjugate antitumour vaccines. Nature, 446(7139), 1000–1007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reynolds, J. N., Hyland, B. I., & Wickens, J. R. (2001). A cellular mechanism of reward-related learning. Nature, 413(6851), 67–70.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Burnett, D. L., Langley, D. B., Schofield, P., Hermes, J. R., Chan, T. D., Jackson, J., Bourne, K., Reed, J. H., Patterson, K., Porebski, B. T., Brink, R., Christ, D., & Goodnow, C. C. (2018). Germinal center antibody mutation trajectories are determined by rapid self/foreign discrimination. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6385), 223–226.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martinelli, R. J., & Milosevic, D. Z. (2015). Project Management ToolBox. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lachapelle, J.-M. (2009). Patch Testing and Prick Testing: A Practical Guide Official Publication of the ICDRG (H. I. Maibach, J. Ring, U. Darsow, & T. Rustemeyer, Eds.; Second Edition). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Flannery, J. A., & Smith, K. M. (2011). Green Dot E. 27th Street Charter High Schools. In K. M. Smith (Ed.), Eco-Urban Design (pp. 42–49). Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, September 19). 10 Grossest Facts About The Human Body. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/10-grossest-facts-about-human-body/

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. (2011). Fiscal Year 2011 Agreed-Upon Procedures for Excise Tax Distributions to the Highway Trust Fund (GAO-12-139R). 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

Pappenfus, B. J. (2013). How frequency of change within organizations affects burnout of human resource professionals [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

Shpigel, B. (2016, December 23). Pro Football; Bowles Hospitalized, and He May Not Coach. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marín, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Galonić & Gin, 2007; Marín, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Galonić & Gin, 2007)
Three authors: (Reynolds et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Burnett et al., 2018)

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