How to format your references using the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. 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.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
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]
M.A. Burns, Analytic chemistry. Everyone’s a (future) chemist, Science 296 (2002) 1818–1819.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
L. Li, Y. Wang, What drives the aerosol distribution in Guangdong--the most developed province in Southern China?, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5972.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
W.J. Nuttall, R.H. Clarke, B.A. Glowacki, Resources: Stop squandering helium, Nature 485 (2012) 573–575.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
J. Gao, J. Zhong, L. Bai, J. Liu, G. Zhao, X. Sun, Revealing the role of catalysts in carbon nanotubes and nanofibers by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3606.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
D. Minoli, A Networking Approach to Grid Computing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.
An edited book
[1]
A. Carpinteri, Y.-W. Mai, R.O. Ritchie, eds., Advances in Fracture Research: Honour and Plenary Lectures Presented at the 11th International Conference on Fracture (ICF11), Held in Turin, Italy, on March 20–25, 2005, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
J.-Q. Sun, B. Song, Analysis and Control of Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamical Systems with Time Delay, in: A.C.J. Luo, J.-Q. Sun (Eds.), Complex Systems: Fractionality, Time-Delay and Synchronization, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 119–203.

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 Environmental Chemical Engineering.

Blog post
[1]
J. O`Callaghan, Cassini Snaps Best Ever Image Of Saturn’s Odd Moon Pandora, 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, Farmers Home Administration Needs To Better Plan, Direct, Develop, and Control Its Computer-Based Unified Management Information System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
B.P. Eggleston, An Investigation of the Difference in Student Achievement during the Middle School Transition Years, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2014.

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.E. Mark, Prom Night, New York Times (2012) SR7.

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 Environmental Chemical Engineering
AbbreviationJ. Environ. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)2213-3437
ScopeChemical Engineering (miscellaneous)
Process Chemistry and Technology
Pollution
Waste Management and Disposal

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