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Citation Styles for the Sciences

ASCE Style

The ASCE style was created by the American Society of Civil Engineers and is the main citation style of the field.

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In-text Citations

Format

(Author Year) 

Author (Year)

In practice

One recent report (Carson 2012) finds evidence that… 

Carson (2006) finds evidence that…

…yielded varying results (Jones 2010; Marks and Smith 2004a, b) 

Some researchers (Jules et al. 2017, Oneida 2014, MacIntire 2018) have found…

Reference List

Books and Handbooks

Committee on Curtain Wall Systems. 2014. Curtain wall systems: A primer, ASCE Manuals and
Reports on Engineering Practice No. 126. Memari, Ali M., ed. Reston, VA: ASCE. 

Journals

Stahl, D. C., R. W. Wolfe, and M. Begel. 2004. “Improved analysis of timber rivet connections.” J.Struct. Eng. 130 (8), 1272–1279.

Li, S., H. Tang, X. Zhang, W. Sun, and R. Bold. 2014. “Fatigue behavior of precorrosiondeformed bars.” J. Mater. Civ. Eng. 26 (9), 06014020-2.

Note: for articles published in ASCE journals, a content identifier is used instead of page numbers 

 

Author is Government Agency

AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials). 2014. AASHTO LRFD bridge design specifications, customary U.S. units, 7th Ed. Washington, DC: AASHTO

In Press Materials (Pre-press)

Dasgupta, G. (in press). “Stiffness matrix from isoparametric closed form shape functions using exact integration.” J. Aerosp. Eng.

Note: Once released, the citation should be updated to reflect publishing information

 

Conference proceedings and symposia

Garrett, D. L. 2003. “Coupled analysis of floating production systems.” In Proc., Int. Symp. on Deep Mooring Systems, Reston, VA: ASCE, 152–167, https://ascelibrary.org/doi/book/10.1061/9780784407011.

Note: include the publisher of the proceedings and that entity’s location (city and state or city and country). Only include the conference sponsor if it is part of the title of the proceedings. If there is no “publisher,” then the name and location of the conference sponsor are required. URLs pointing to the proceedings are optional.