How to format your references using the Carbon Resources Conversion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Carbon Resources Conversion. 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

[1]

V. Dixit, Jürg Tschopp (1951-2011), Nature. 472 (2011) 296.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.S. Kubatko, D.K. Pearl, Evolution. Seeing the trees in your terrace, Science. 333 (2011) 411–412.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.R. Pasham, T.E. Strohmayer, R.F. Mushotzky, A 400-solar-mass black hole in the galaxy M82, Nature. 513 (2014) 74–76.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Torres-Rosell, G. De Piccoli, V. Cordon-Preciado, S. Farmer, A. Jarmuz, F. Machin, P. Pasero, M. Lisby, J.E. Haber, L. Aragón, Anaphase onset before complete DNA replication with intact checkpoint responses, Science. 315 (2007) 1411–1415.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

O. Coussy, Poromechanics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

L. Magnani, W. Carnielli, C. Pizzi, eds., Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Rosenthal, A. Flexer, P. Möller, The hydrochemical history of the Rift, in: H. Hötzl, P. Möller, E. Rosenthal (Eds.), The Water of the Jordan Valley: Scarcity and Deterioration of Groundwater and Its Impact on the Regional Development, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 75–82.

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 Carbon Resources Conversion.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Crazy Chemistry Of Insects, IFLScience. (2015).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, K-12 Education: Characteristics of the Investing in Innovation Fund, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Subramanian, Mechanisms and Effect of Microstructure on High Temperature Deformation of Gamma-TiAl Based Alloys, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2003.

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

[1]

E. St. John Kelly, Needles Click to a Younger Beat, New York Times. (1998) 144.

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	Carbon Resources Conversion
ISSN (print)	2588-9133
Scope

Research and Writing Guides