How to format your references using the Structural Control and Health Monitoring citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Structural Control and Health Monitoring. 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

Chan MA. PLANETARY SCIENCE. The martian lake chronicles. Science (New York, NY) 2015; 350(6257): 167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parker AR, Lawrence CR. Water capture by a desert beetle. Nature 2001; 414(6859): 33–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

Marchevsky M, Higgins MJ, Bhattacharya S. Two coexisting vortex phases in the peak effect regime in a superconductor. Nature 2001; 409(6820): 591–594.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sung NS, Gordon JI, Rose GD, Getzoff ED, Kron SJ, Mumford D, et al. Science education. Educating future scientists. Science (New York, NY) 2003; 301(5639): 1485.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gregory J. Central Counterparties. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Abeles FF, Fuller ME, editors. Modern Logic 1850-1950, East and West. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Singh SR, Rathore H. Two-Warehouse Reverse Logistic Inventory Model for Deteriorating Item under Learning Effect. In: Das KN, Deep K, Pant M, Bansal JC, Nagar A, editors. Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving: SocProS 2014, Volume 1, New Delhi: Springer India; 2015.

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 Structural Control and Health Monitoring.

Blog post

Hale T. Video Shows Otters Drown And Kill A Monkey At A Zoo. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/video-shows-otters-drown-and-kill-a-monkey-at-a-zoo/ [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. Child Care and Early Childhood Education: More Information Sharing and Program Review by HHS Could Enhance Access for Families with Limited English Proficiency (Spanish Version). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hernandez SS. Professionals’ perceptions of effective interventions with elderly hoarders. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

Walsh MW. Court Is Asked For Debt Relief By Puerto Rico. New York Times 2017: A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Structural Control and Health Monitoring
Abbreviation	Struct. Contr. Health Monit.
ISSN (online)	1545-2263
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanics of Materials Building and Construction