How to format your references using the Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Foster KR (2005) Biomedicine. Hamiltonian medicine: why the social lives of pathogens matter. Science 308:1269–1270

A journal article with 2 authors

Leung CT, Brugge JS (2012) Outgrowth of single oncogene-expressing cells from suppressive epithelial environments. Nature 482:410–413

A journal article with 3 authors

Kashlinsky A, Odenwald S, Hogan CJ (2000) Looking behind the stars. Science 289:246–247

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rund SSC, Bonar NA, Champion MM, et al (2013) Daily rhythms in antennal protein and olfactory sensitivity in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Sci Rep 3:2494

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kent J (2017) ADA in Details. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

De Cecco CN (2014) MDCT and MRI of the Heart. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Arfaa J, Wang Y (2014) A Usability Study on Elder Adults Utilizing Social Networking Sites. In: Marcus A (ed) Design, User Experience, and Usability. User Experience Design for Diverse Interaction Platforms and Environments: Third International Conference, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 50–61

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 Material Cycles and Waste Management.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Endangered Mountain Pygmy Possums Born. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/endangered-mountain-pygmy-possums-born/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1996) Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. 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

Tabone B (2013) Knowledge and awareness of the Female Athlete Triad among female collegiate athletes at California State University, Long Beach. 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

Murphy MJO, Thee-Brenan M (2016) Spot on Ballot Is No Cure-All, Women Say in Poll. New York Times A1

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 Material Cycles and Waste Management
Abbreviation	J. Mater. Cycles Waste Manag.
ISSN (print)	1438-4957
ISSN (online)	1611-8227
Scope	Mechanics of Materials Waste Management and Disposal