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]

T.C. Lubensky, LIQUID CRYSTALS: New Banana Phases, Science. 288 (2000) 2146–2147.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Aussillous, D. Quéré, Liquid marbles, Nature. 411 (2001) 924–927.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Külheim, J. Agren, S. Jansson, Rapid regulation of light harvesting and plant fitness in the field, Science. 297 (2002) 91–93.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.B. Jones, A. Gordus, J.A. Krall, G. MacBeath, A quantitative protein interaction network for the ErbB receptors using protein microarrays, Nature. 439 (2006) 168–174.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.G. Ramm, N.S. Hoang, Dynamical Systems Method and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Garro, ed., Early Childhood Assessment in School and Clinical Child Psychology, Springer, New York, NY, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.C. Finley, “We Needed Both of Them”: The Continuing Relevance of Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr.’s (Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman’s) Radical Interpretations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in Scholarship and Black Protest Thought, in: J.E. Clark (Ed.), Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016: pp. 59–76.

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]

S. Luntz, Most Americans Support Childhood Vaccines, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/most-americans-support-childhood-vaccines/ (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, Air Traffic Control: Computer Capacity Shortfalls May Impair Flight Safety, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.A. Tubbs, The use of hand-constructed graphs in Microcomputer-Based Laboratories for kinematics instruction, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

J.B. Stewart, Feel Optimistic About the Booming Market? Then Read at Your Own Risk, 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 Hazardous Materials
Abbreviation	J. Hazard. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0304-3894
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution Waste Management and Disposal