How to format your references using the Journal of Industrial Ecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Industrial Ecology. 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

Dyson, F. 2004. A meeting with Enrico Fermi. Nature 427(6972): 297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Merritt, D. and R.D. Ekers. 2002. Tracing black hole mergers through radio lobe morphology. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297(5585): 1310–1313.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, J., A.A. Abdeen, and K.A. Kilian. 2014. Rewiring mesenchymal stem cell lineage specification by switching the biophysical microenvironment. Scientific Reports 4: 5188.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mair, G.R., J.A.M. Braks, L.S. Garver, J.C.A.G. Wiegant, N. Hall, R.W. Dirks, S.M. Khan, G. Dimopoulos, C.J. Janse, and A.P. Waters. 2006. Regulation of sexual development of Plasmodium by translational repression. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5787): 667–669.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szpankowski, W. 2001. Average Case Analysis of Algorithms on Sequences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., April 2.

An edited book

Beckert, Bernhard, and Reiner Hähnle, eds. 2008. Tests and Proofs: Second International Conference, TAP 2008, Prato, Italy, April 9-11, 2008. Proceedings. Vol. 4966. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vestergaard, C. and M.S. Deleuran. 2014. Inflammatory-Driven Depletion of Filaggrin Proteins. In Filaggrin: Basic Science, Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects and Management, ed. by Jacob P. Thyssen and Howard I. Maibach, 27–36. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Industrial Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. What On Earth Is This? IFLScience. IFLScience, May 4. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-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

Government Accountability Office. 1999. Award of Indian Health Professions Scholarships. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 15.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Long, R.E. 2011. Performance Assessment of Predicted Heat Strain in High Heat Stress Exposures. Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Gordon, M.R. 2017. U.S. Mulls Providing Weapons to Ukraine. New York Times, August 24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dyson 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Dyson 2004; Merritt and Ekers 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Merritt and Ekers 2002)
Three or more authors: (Mair et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Industrial Ecology
Abbreviation	J. Ind. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	1088-1980
ISSN (online)	1530-9290
Scope	General Environmental Science General Social Sciences