How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Electrochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Electrochemistry. 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

Denny MW (2008) Biophysics. The intrigue of the interface. Science 320:886

A journal article with 2 authors

Ceci S, Williams WM (2009) Darwin 200: Should scientists study race and IQ? YES: The scientific truth must be pursued. Nature 457:788–789

A journal article with 3 authors

Inaba M, Yamanaka H, Kondo S (2012) Pigment pattern formation by contact-dependent depolarization. Science 335:677

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Strigari LE, Bullock JS, Kaplinghat M, et al (2008) A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Nature 454:1096–1097

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Plantin J-C (2014) Participatory Mapping. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Huang D-S, Bevilacqua V, Premaratne P (2014) Intelligent Computing Theory: 10th International Conference, ICIC 2014, Taiyuan, China, August 3-6, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Borello G (2016) How to Obtain Credit from Alternative Funding Agents. In: Bottiglia R, Pichler F (eds) Crowdfunding for SMEs: A European Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 93–116

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 Journal of Applied Electrochemistry.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2015) How To Win At Rock-Paper-Scissors With Science. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-win-rock-paper-scissors/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1996) School Finance: Options for Improving Measures of Effort and Equity in Title I. 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

Eisenbeiser CK (2012) Parents’ Experience of Involvement in the Lives of Community College Students: A Phenomenological Study. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University

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

Saslow L (2007) Southampton Sets Aside Spot for Day Laborers. New York Times 14LI2

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	Journal of Applied Electrochemistry
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Electrochem.
ISSN (print)	0021-891X
ISSN (online)	1572-8838
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Electrochemistry Materials Chemistry

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