How to format your references using the International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion (IJEMCP). 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

Broer, D. J., Applied Physics: A New View on Displays, Nature, vol. 511, no. 7508, pp. 159–60, July 10, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Charbonnel, C. and Talon, S., Astronomy. Mixing a Stellar Cocktail, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 318, no. 5852, pp. 922–23, November 9, 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Duderstadt, K. E., Chuang, K. and Berger, J. M., DNA Stretching by Bacterial Initiators Promotes Replication Origin Opening, Nature, vol. 478, no. 7368, pp. 209–13, October 2, 2011.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Liu, Y., Granet, D., Lin, H., Baxter, S., Ouyang, H., Zhu, J., Huang, S., et al., Liu et al. Reply, Nature, vol. 556, no. 7699, pp. E3–4, April 4, 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chowdhury, D. and Stauffer, D., Principles of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2005.

An edited book

Bartl, R., Bisphosphonates in Medical Practice: Actions — Side Effects — Indications — Strategies, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, XX, 265 p, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, D. S. and Yadav, J. S., Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting Trials, in Handbook Of Complex Percutaneous Carotid Intervention, J. Saw J. E. Exaire D. S. Lee and J. S. Yadav, Eds., Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, pp. 47–63, 2007.

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 International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., Incredible New Images Of Mars Are So High-Res, You Can See Beagle 2 On The Surface, IFLScience, April 27, 2016.

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, Comments on NASA Budget Expenditures, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-152554, Dec. 6, 1963.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Piper, M. H., A Study of the Effectiveness of Alternative Schools through an Examination of Graduation Rates, School Climate, Student Motivation, and Academic Rigor, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2017.

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

Von Aue, M., A Radical Redo for ‘Madama Butterfly,’ New York Times, May 19, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Broer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Broer, 2014; Charbonnel et al., 2007).

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

Two authors: (Charbonnel et al., 2007)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion
ISSN (print)	2150-766X
ISSN (online)	2150-7678
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