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

Lawler A (2011) Archaeology. America’s lost city. Science 334:1618–1623

A journal article with 2 authors

Poldrack RA, Farah MJ (2015) Progress and challenges in probing the human brain. Nature 526:371–379

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang Y, Zhang Y, Ha Y (2006) Crystal structure of a rhomboid family intramembrane protease. Nature 444:179–180

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Soloviev AV, Lukas R, Donelan MA, et al (2014) The air-sea interface and surface stress under tropical cyclones. Sci Rep 4:5306

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Borchard-Tuch C, Groß M (2005) Was Biotronik alles kann. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Huang Y (2014) Geo-disaster Modeling and Analysis: An SPH-based Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ye L, Hou J (2015) Conjugated Polymer Photovoltaic Materials. In: Li Y (ed) Organic Optoelectronic Materials. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 195–239

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 E (2014) New Technology Allows Water Purification Using Sunlight. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-technology-allows-water-purification-using-sunlight/. 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 (1995) Airport Improvement Program: Update of Allocation of Funds and Passenger Facility Charges, 1992-94. 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

Labelle DA (2012) Perceived barriers to recruitment and retention in rural healthcare sectors: A physical therapist narrative inquiry. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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 MJO (2011) A Watcher in the Night. New York Times BR15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lawler 2011; Poldrack and Farah 2015).

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

Two authors: (Poldrack and Farah 2015)
Three or more authors: (Soloviev et al. 2014)

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