How to format your references using the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 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	Download the output style file
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

Brumfiel, G., 2002. Keeping up appearances. Nature 419, 419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hirsh, A.E., Fraser, H.B., 2001. Protein dispensability and rate of evolution. Nature 411, 1046–1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dodds, P.S., Muhamad, R., Watts, D.J., 2003. An experimental study of search in global social networks. Science 301, 827–829.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Karakozova, M., Kozak, M., Wong, C.C.L., Bailey, A.O., Yates, J.R., 3rd, Mogilner, A., Zebroski, H., Kashina, A., 2006. Arginylation of beta-actin regulates actin cytoskeleton and cell motility. Science 313, 192–196.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberty, R.A., 2006. Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathmatica, Methods of Biochemical Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bassis, S., Esposito, A., Morabito, F.C., Pasero, E. (Eds.), 2016. Advances in Neural Networks: Computational Intelligence for ICT, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Farooq, U., Marrakchi, Z., Mehrez, H., 2012. Heterogeneous Architectures Exploration Environments, in: Marrakchi, Z., Mehrez, H. (Eds.), Tree-Based Heterogeneous FPGA Architectures: Application Specific Exploration and Optimization. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 85–122.

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 Greenhouse Gas Control.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Gas Cloud Glows Pink In The Light From New Stars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1986. Education Block Grant: How Funds Reserved for State Efforts in California and Washington Are Used (No. HRD-86-94). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nakayama, M., 2017. Educational Advocacy for Children in Foster Care: A Grant Proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2015. The Rise of Modigliani’s Profile, and the Asking Prices for His Works. New York Times C36.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Brumfiel, 2002; Hirsh and Fraser, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Hirsh and Fraser, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Karakozova et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
Abbreviation	Int. J. Greenhouse Gas Control
ISSN (print)	1750-5836
Scope	General Energy Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Pollution