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]

M.A. Whyte, Palaeoecology: a gigantic fossil arthropod trackway, Nature 438 (2005) 576.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.J. Wood, A.N. Halliday, The lead isotopic age of the Earth can be explained by core formation alone, Nature 465 (2010) 767–770.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.C. Gadsby, P. Vergani, L. Csanády, The ABC protein turned chloride channel whose failure causes cystic fibrosis, Nature 440 (2006) 477–483.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Yao, O. Garmash, F. Bianchi, J. Zheng, C. Yan, J. Kontkanen, H. Junninen, S.B. Mazon, M. Ehn, P. Paasonen, M. Sipilä, M. Wang, X. Wang, S. Xiao, H. Chen, Y. Lu, B. Zhang, D. Wang, Q. Fu, F. Geng, L. Li, H. Wang, L. Qiao, X. Yang, J. Chen, V.-M. Kerminen, T. Petäjä, D.R. Worsnop, M. Kulmala, L. Wang, Atmospheric new particle formation from sulfuric acid and amines in a Chinese megacity, Science 361 (2018) 278–281.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Kay, Statistical Thinking for Non-Statisticians in Drug Regulation, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

T. Ziemke, C. Balkenius, J. Hallam, eds., From Animals to Animats 12: 12th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2012, Odense, Denmark, August 27-30, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Lam, F. Guerin, W. Vasconcelos, T.J. Norman, Building Multi-Agent Systems for Workflow Enactment and Exception Handling, in: J. Padget, A. Artikis, W. Vasconcelos, K. Stathis, V.T. da Silva, E. Matson, A. Polleres (Eds.), Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems V: COIN 2009 International Workshops. COIN@AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009, COIN@IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, USA, July 2009, COIN@MALLOW 2009, Turin, Italy, September 2009. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 53–69.

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]

K. Hamilton, The Hobbit Took Our Breath Away: Now It’s The New Normal, IFLScience (2016).

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, Multiple Protests Against Contract Award, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.-Y. Tsai, Elucidating the Role of Protein Cofactors in RNA Catalysis Using Ribonuclease P as the Model System, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006.

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, Mets’ Pitching Coach Offers Wisdom and Wit, New York Times (2017) D6.

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
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