How to format your references using the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 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. May, Heart health, Nature 493 (2013) S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Bonduriansky, C.E. Brassil, Senescence: rapid and costly ageing in wild male flies, Nature 420 (2002) 377.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.C. Joseph, S.E. Joseph, G. Chen, Cross-border portfolio investment networks and indicators for financial crises, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3991.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Gao, C. Song, Z. Gao, A.-L. Barabási, J.P. Bagrow, D. Wang, Quantifying information flow during emergencies, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3997.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Deutsch, Convergence, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

P.E. Zalba, Gondwana Industrial Clays: Tandilia System, Argentina-Geology and Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Hromkovič, R. Královič, R. Královič, R. Štefanec, Determinism vs. Nondeterminism for Two-Way Automata, in: H.-C. Yen, O.H. Ibarra (Eds.), Developments in Language Theory: 16th International Conference, DLT 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, August 14-17, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 24–39.

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 Electroanalytical Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Indonesian Mimic Octopus Is The Ultimate Master of Disguise, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/indonesian-mimic-octopus-ultimate-master-disguise/ (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, Natural Gas Pipeline Safety: Risk-Based Standards Should Allow Operators to Better Tailor Reassessments to Pipeline Threats, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Roberts, Use of Stay Interviews as a Retention Tool for Key Talent, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2017.

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]

S. Dynarski, Free Markets Aren’t a Cure-All in Education, New York Times (2016) BU6.

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 Electroanalytical Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Electroanal. Chem. (Lausanne Switz)
ISSN (print)	1572-6657
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Analytical Chemistry Electrochemistry