How to format your references using the Journal of Electroceramics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Electroceramics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. R. Benton, Science 326, 382 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

1. M. Mori and M. Umemura, Nature 440, 644 (2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

1. V. Giovannetti, S. Lloyd, and L. Maccone, Nature 412, 417 (2001).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. B. Hoopengardner, T. Bhalla, C. Staber, and R. Reenan, Science 301, 832 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. R. Dmytryk, Wildlife Search and Rescue (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011).

An edited book

1. J. E. Quintela Varajão, M. M. Cruz-Cunha, G. D. Putnik, and A. Trigo, editors , ENTERprise Information Systems: International Conference, CENTERIS 2010, Viana Do Castelo, Portugal, October 20-22, 2010, Proceedings, Part II (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010).

A chapter in an edited book

1. R. J. Webby, R. G. Webster, and J. A. Richt, in Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission, edited by J. E. Childs, J. S. Mackenzie, and J. A. Richt (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007), pp. 67–83.

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 Electroceramics.

Blog post

1. R. Andrews, IFLScience (2017).

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, Federal Research: Preliminary Information on the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. T. Morikawa, Aerodynamic Analysis of an Over-the-Wing Engine-Mount Aircraft, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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. K. Crow, New York Times 148 (2001).

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 Electroceramics
Abbreviation	J. Electroceram.
ISSN (print)	1385-3449
ISSN (online)	1573-8663
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanics of Materials Ceramics and Composites Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics