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]

C. Smith, Genomics: big tasks for small molecules, Nature. 435 (2005) 991.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.A. Tikku, N.G. Direen, Comment on “Major Australian-Antarctic plate reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor bend time,” Science. 321 (2008) 490; author reply 490.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.N. Reynolds, B.I. Hyland, J.R. Wickens, A cellular mechanism of reward-related learning, Nature. 413 (2001) 67–70.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.L. Goldstein, G. Soffer, C.H. Langmuir, K.A. Lehnert, D.W. Graham, P.J. Michael, Origin of a “Southern Hemisphere” geochemical signature in the Arctic upper mantle, Nature. 453 (2008) 89–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Abran, Software Project Estimation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

V. Kumar, N. Leonard, A.S. Morse, eds., Cooperative Control: A Post-Workshop Volume 2003 Block Island Workshop on Cooperative Control, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Van Biesbrouck, L. Eeckhout, B. Calder, Efficient Sampling Startup for Sampled Processor Simulation, in: T. Conte, N. Navarro, W.-M.W. Hwu, M. Valero, T. Ungerer (Eds.), High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers: First International Conference, HiPEAC 2005, Barcelona, Spain, November 17-18, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005: pp. 47–67.

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]

E. Andrew, Depression Associated With Higher Risk Of Developing Parkinson’s, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/depression-associated-higher-risk-developing-parkinsons/ (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, Telecommunications: GSA’s Difficulties Managing FTS 2000, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N.L. Simon-Owens, Southern Virginia Higher Education Center: An exploration of factors affecting organizational leadership, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2010.

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. Williams, Robert Caro Nears End Of Research on L.B.J, New York Times. (2017) C3.

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

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