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]

P.M. Schenk, Thickness constraints on the icy shells of the galilean satellites from a comparison of crater shapes, Nature. 417 (2002) 419–421.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Boehme, D.R. McCamey, Physics. Nuclear-spin quantum memory poised to take the lead, Science. 336 (2012) 1239–1240.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Müller, A. Peters, S. Chu, A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves, Nature. 463 (2010) 926–929.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.A. Stern, H.A. Weaver, A.J. Steffl, M.J. Mutchler, W.J. Merline, M.W. Buie, E.F. Young, L.A. Young, J.R. Spencer, A giant impact origin for Pluto’s small moons and satellite multiplicity in the Kuiper belt, Nature. 439 (2006) 946–948.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Schwedt, Experimente rund um die Kunststoffe des Alltags, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

L. Cocchiarella, ed., The Visual Language of Technique: Volume 2 - Heritage and Expectations in Research, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Hrušovský, K. Noeres, Exploring the IT-enabled Optimisation Potential of Cruise Excursions, in: A. Papathanassis, M.H. Breitner, C. Schoen, N. Guhr (Eds.), Cruise Management: Information and Decision Support Systems, Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2012: pp. 105–113.

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]

T. Hale, China Finally Confirms Their Space Station Is Crashing Towards Earth, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-finally-confirms-their-space-station-is-crashing-towards-earth/ (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, Issues and Problems Relating to United States-Japan Trade, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Hall, The use of art therapy to address psychosocial stress among men living with HIV: A grant proposal project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2011.

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]

C. Bray, Barclays Charged in Qatar Fund-Raising, New York Times. (2017) B1.

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

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