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

Rowan R (2004) Coral bleaching: thermal adaptation in reef coral symbionts. Nature 430:742

A journal article with 2 authors

Dermitzakis ET, Clark AG (2009) Genetics. Life after GWA studies. Science 326:239–240

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharma B, Mandani S, Sarma TK (2013) Biogenic growth of alloys and core-shell nanostructures using urease as a nanoreactor at ambient conditions. Sci Rep 3:2601

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hanan BB, Blichert-Toft J, Pyle DG, Christie DM (2004) Contrasting origins of the upper mantle revealed by hafnium and lead isotopes from the Southeast Indian Ridge. Nature 432:91–94

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Svrcek WY, Mahoney DP, Young BR (2007) A Real-Time Approach to Process Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gervasi O, Gavrilova ML, Kumar V, et al (eds) (2005) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005: International Conference, Singapore, May 9-12, 2005, Proceedings, Part III. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ditcheva B, Dicheva D (2007) Visual Browsing and Editing of Topic Map-Based Learning Repositories. In: Maicher L, Sigel A, Garshol LM (eds) Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps: Second International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2006, Leipzig, Germany, October 11-12, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 44–55

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 (2016) Driverless Cars Should Sacrifice Their Passengers For The Greater Good – Just Not When I’m The Passenger. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/driverless-cars-should-sacrifice-their-passengers-for-the-greater-good-just-not-when-im-the-passenger/. 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 (1992) General Services Issues. 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

Beck J (2010) Community based human trafficking awareness program: A grant proposal project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Apuzzo M, Schmidt MS (2017) White House Tries Civility With Mueller. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rowan 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Rowan 2004; Dermitzakis and Clark 2009).

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

Two authors: (Dermitzakis and Clark 2009)
Three or more authors: (Hanan 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