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

Marrucci G (2003) Materials science. Polymers go with the flow. Science 301:1681–1682

A journal article with 2 authors

Petersen J, Hagan IM (2005) Polo kinase links the stress pathway to cell cycle control and tip growth in fission yeast. Nature 435:507–512

A journal article with 3 authors

Nateri AS, Spencer-Dene B, Behrens A (2005) Interaction of phosphorylated c-Jun with TCF4 regulates intestinal cancer development. Nature 437:281–285

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sano M, Kamino A, Okamura J, Shinkai S (2001) Ring closure of carbon nanotubes. Science 293:1299–1301

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Forsberg K, Mansdorf SZ (2005) Quick Selection Guide to Chemical Protective Clothing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Grigoriev YN (2010) Symmetries of Integro-Differential Equations: With Applications in Mechanics and Plasma Physics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Carpenter JE, Bloem S, Marec F (2005) Inherited Sterility in Insects. In: Dyck VA, Hendrichs J, Robinson AS (eds) Sterile Insect Technique: Principles and Practice in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 115–146

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

Davis J (2015) Is Commercial Fishing Driving The Evolution Of Fish? In: IFLScience. 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 (1993) IRS Information Systems: Weaknesses Increase Risk of Fraud and Impair Reliability of Management Information. 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

Mackay EA (2009) Title I funding allocation of reserve funds after increased standards for academic proficiency under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Vecsey G (2010) Super Bowl Champion Jets Ignited A Sporting Revival in the Big Town. New York Times SP3

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