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:

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.A. Kerr, EARTH SCIENCE: Did Volcanoes Drive Ancient Extinctions?, Science 289 (2000) 1130–1131.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Hemmer, J. Wrachtrup, Physics. Where is my quantum computer?, Science 324 (2009) 473–474.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Cysouw, D. Dediu, S. Moran, Comment on “Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa,” Science 335 (2012) 657; author reply 657.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z. Zhang, N. Xu, D.T.N. Chen, P. Yunker, A.M. Alsayed, K.B. Aptowicz, P. Habdas, A.J. Liu, S.R. Nagel, A.G. Yodh, Thermal vestige of the zero-temperature jamming transition, Nature 459 (2009) 230–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Ghiani, G. Laporte, R. Musmanno, Introduction to Logistics Systems Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

D. Lozovanu, Optimization of Stochastic Discrete Systems and Control on Complex Networks: Computational Networks, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Barga, V. Fontama, W.H. Tok, Integration with Python, in: V. Fontama, W.H. Tok (Eds.), Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2015: pp. 103–130.

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, Hands On With Bloodhound: The 1,000 mph Car That Will Smash The Land Speed Record, IFLScience (2015).

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, Special Education: Estimates of Handicapped Indian Preschoolers and Sufficiency of Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.C. Day, CPA Perceptions of Human Skills for Professional Competency Development Needs, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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]

M. Kelly, THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; CLINTON IS LEERY OF PREMATURE JOY, New York Times (1992) A1.

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