How to format your references using the Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology. 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]

Balibar, S., 2010, “The Enigma of Supersolidity,” Nature, 464(7286), pp. 176–182.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rowland, D. C., and Moser, M.-B., 2015, “Neuroscience: A Three-Dimensional Neural Compass,” Nature, 517(7533), pp. 156–157.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dillin, A., Crawford, D. K., and Kenyon, C., 2002, “Timing Requirements for Insulin/IGF-1 Signaling in C. Elegans,” Science, 298(5594), pp. 830–834.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Zalzman, M., Falco, G., Sharova, L. V., Nishiyama, A., Thomas, M., Lee, S.-L., Stagg, C. A., Hoang, H. G., Yang, H.-T., Indig, F. E., Wersto, R. P., and Ko, M. S. H., 2010, “Zscan4 Regulates Telomere Elongation and Genomic Stability in ES Cells,” Nature, 464(7290), pp. 858–863.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Simko, S. P., 2012, Strategic Fixed Income Investing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Romero, J., McDermott, J., and Correia, J., eds., 2014, Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design: Third European Conference, EvoMUSART 2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

McPherson, M., 2014, “Refugee Women, Education, and Self Authorship,” Migration, Diaspora and Identity: Cross-National Experiences, G. Tsolidis, ed., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 77–93.

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 Fuel Cell Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Davis, J., 2016, “Live Dolphins FedEx’d From Hawaii To Arizona For New Tourist Attraction,” IFLScience [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/live-dolphins-fedexd-from-hawaii-to-arizona-for-new-tourist-attraction/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-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, 2003, Distance Education: Challenges for Minority Serving Institutions and Implications for Federal Education Policy, GAO-04-78T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

PerLee-Lange, D. L., 2010, “An Introduction to the Juvenile Dependency Court Process and the Child Welfare System: A Curriculum for Parents,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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]

Crow, K., 2001, “Healing and Burnout, 12 Hours at a Stretch,” New York Times, p. 152.

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 Fuel Cell Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Fuel Cell Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1550-624X
ISSN (online)	1551-6989
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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