How to format your references using the Journal of Chemical Ecology citation style

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

Varis O (2014) Resources: Curb vast water use in central Asia. Nature 514:27–29

A journal article with 2 authors

Rubenstein DR, Lovette IJ (2009) Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species. Nature 462:786–789

A journal article with 3 authors

Naumov II, Bellaiche L, Fu H (2004) Unusual phase transitions in ferroelectric nanodisks and nanorods. Nature 432:737–740

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Azzam R, Chen SL, Shou W, et al (2004) Phosphorylation by cyclin B-Cdk underlies release of mitotic exit activator Cdc14 from the nucleolus. Science 305:516–519

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brandimarte P (2014) Handbook in Monte Carlo Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Andersen KV, Debenham J, Wagner R (eds) (2005) Database and Expert Systems Applications: 16th International Conference, DEXA 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-26, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fleishman GD, Toptygin IN (2013) Nonlinear MHD Waves and Discontinuities. In: Toptygin IN (ed) Cosmic Electrodynamics: Electrodynamics and Magnetic Hydrodynamics of Cosmic Plasmas. Springer, New York, NY, pp 163–216

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 Chemical Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) Bigfoot, The Kraken And Night Parrots: Searching For The Mythical Or Mysterious. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bigfoot-the-kraken-and-night-parrots-searching-for-the-mythical-or-mysterious/. 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 (2014) Commercial Space Launches: FAA’s Risk Assessment Process Is Not Yet Updated. 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

Deshotel MW (2017) Enhancing Undergraduate Water Resources Engineering Education Using Data and Modeling Resources Situated in Real-world Ecosystems: Design Principles and Challenges for Scaling and Sustainability. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Wilson M (2017) New Jersey Man Is Found Guilty on All Counts in Chelsea Bomb Attack. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Varis 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Rubenstein and Lovette 2009; Varis 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rubenstein and Lovette 2009)
Three or more authors: (Azzam et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Chemical Ecology
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	0098-0331
ISSN (online)	1573-1561
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Biochemistry General Medicine