How to format your references using the Journal of CO2 Utilization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of CO2 Utilization. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
[1]
R.R. Breaker, Complex riboswitches, Science. 319 (2008) 1795–1797.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
P. Forster, S. Matsumura, Evolution. Did early humans go north or south?, Science. 308 (2005) 965–966.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
C.A. Dalton, C.H. Langmuir, A. Gale, Geophysical and geochemical evidence for deep temperature variations beneath mid-ocean ridges, Science. 344 (2014) 80–83.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
C. Veillet, J.W. Parker, I. Griffin, B. Marsden, A. Doressoundiram, M. Buie, D.J. Tholen, M. Connelley, M.J. Holman, The binary Kuiper-belt object 1998 WW31, Nature. 416 (2002) 711–713.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
R.S. Mazze, E.S. Strock, G.D. Simonson, R.M. Bergenstal, Staged Diabetes Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.
An edited book
[1]
G. Michelson, ed., Teleophthalmology in Preventive Medicine, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
G.W. Holden, R. Ashraf, Children’s Right to Safety: The Problem of Corporal Punishment in Pakistan, in: S. Deb (Ed.), Child Safety, Welfare and Well-Being: Issues and Challenges, Springer India, New Delhi, 2016: pp. 59–74.

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 CO2 Utilization.

Blog post
[1]
E. Andrew, Watch Hundreds Of Gnat Larvae Slither Together Like A Snake, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-hundreds-gnat-larvae-slither-together-snake/ (accessed October 30, 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
[1]
Government Accountability Office, Selected Aspects of the Army’s Aviation Maintenance Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
N.R. Fortenbery, Regulation of Natural Killer Cells: SHIP-1, 2B4, and Immunomodulation by Lenalidomide, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2012.

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
[1]
M.J.O. Murphy, Watching Youth Fly by, in Fiction and Fact, New York Times. (2015) AR12.

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 titleJournal of CO2 Utilization
ISSN (print)2212-9820
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