How to format your references using the Journal of Hazardous Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Hazardous Materials. 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]

W.J. Sutherland, Parallel extinction risk and global distribution of languages and species, Nature 423 (2003) 276–279.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Carrizosa, T.R. Mempel, Immunology: In the right place at the right time, Nature 528 (2015) 205–206.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Burga, M.O. Casanueva, B. Lehner, Predicting mutation outcome from early stochastic variation in genetic interaction partners, Nature 480 (2011) 250–253.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

O. Alard, W.L. Griffin, J.P. Lorand, S.E. Jackson, S.Y. O’Reilly, Non-chondritic distribution of the highly siderophile elements in mantle sulphides, Nature 407 (2000) 891–894.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.B. Malpass, E.I. Band, Introduction to Industrial Polypropylene, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

B. Scherer, Introduction to Modern Portfolio optimization with NUOPT and S-PLUS, Springer, New York, NY, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.L. Huston, D.C. Champion, K.F. Cassidy, Tectonic controls on the endowment of Archean cratons in VHMS deposits: Evidence from PB and Nd isotopes, in: J. Mao, F.P. Bierlein (Eds.), Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge: Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial SGA Meeting Beijing, China, 18–21 August 2005, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005: pp. 15–18.

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 Hazardous Materials.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Humans Now Drive Evolution On Earth, Both Creating And Destroying Species, 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, Assessment of Audits of Bilingual Education Grants in Texas by U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.H. Demenkoff, Evolution and emergence of the masculinities: Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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]

G. Vecsey, A Personal Loss for a Hofstra Alumnus, New York Times (2009) B19.

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 Hazardous Materials
Abbreviation	J. Hazard. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0304-3894
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution Waste Management and Disposal