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:

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

[1]

N. McDowell, Lords blast red tape in animal experiments, Nature 418 (2002) 358.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Helin, D. Dhanak, Chromatin proteins and modifications as drug targets, Nature 502 (2013) 480–488.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K.M. Khanna, J.T. McNamara, L. Lefrançois, In situ imaging of the endogenous CD8 T cell response to infection, Science 318 (2007) 116–120.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.A. Lockwood, C.G. Menter, J. Moggi-Cecchi, A.W. Keyser, Extended male growth in a fossil hominin species, Science 318 (2007) 1443–1446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Yao, S. Liu, Ultrasonic Technology for Desiccant Regeneration, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

A. Kramer, A. Kibaroglu, W. Scheumann, eds., Turkey’s Water Policy: National Frameworks and International Cooperation, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L.J. Hansen, J.R. Hoffman, Buying Time, in: J.R. Hoffman (Ed.), Climate Savvy: Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World, Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC, 2011: pp. 37–54.

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, Four Myths About Allergies You Thought Were True – But Aren’t, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/four-myths-about-allergies-you-thought-were-true-aren-t/ (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, ADP Planning: FDA’s Plans to Improve Processing of Medical Device and Drug Applications, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Herrlich, Transparency and medical interventions in vital statistics reports: Quantitative research and analysis, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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]

J. Wagner, Collins, Nearing a Mets Milestone, Is Still Enjoying the Journey, New York Times (2017) D3.

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 CO2 Utilization
ISSN (print)	2212-9820
Scope