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

Kerr RA. The Sun Again Intrudes on Earth’s Decadal Climate Change. Science (New York, NY) 2000; 288(5473): 1986.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hughes S, Gurung S. Exploring the boundary between a siphon and barometer in a hypobaric chamber. Scientific Reports 2014; 4: 4741.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rudolph ML, Lekić V, Lithgow-Bertelloni C. Viscosity jump in Earth’s mid-mantle. Science (New York, NY) 2015; 350(6266): 1349–1352.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Galburt EA, Grill SW, Wiedmann A, Lubkowska L, Choy J, Nogales E, et al. Backtracking determines the force sensitivity of RNAP II in a factor-dependent manner. Nature 2007; 446(7137): 820–823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chadwick P. Person-Based Cognitive Therapy for Distressing Psychosis. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Gribble GW, editor. Heterocyclic Scaffolds II: Reactions and Applications of Indoles. vol. 26. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Miura N, Sakurai T, Kuroda T. Inductive Coupled Communications. In: Ho R, Drost R, editors. Coupled Data Communication Techniques for High-Performance and Low-Power Computing, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010.

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

Andrew E. New Material Converts Sunlight to Steam. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-material-converts-sunlight-steam/ [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. School Improvement Grants: Early Implementation Under Way, but Reforms Affected by Short Time Frames. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kostenbader TC. Analyzing students’ attitudes towards science during inquiry-based lessons. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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. Seeing a Former Champion Beyond His Combative Side. New York Times 2011: B18.

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