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

Scott JC (2004) Materials science. Is there an immortal memory? Science 304:62–63

A journal article with 2 authors

Evans JW, Thiel PA (2010) Chemistry. A little chemistry helps the big get bigger. Science 330:599–600

A journal article with 3 authors

Kusky TM, Li JH, Tucker RD (2001) The Archean Dongwanzi ophiolite complex, North China craton: 2.505-billion-year-old oceanic crust and mantle. Science 292:1142–1145

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ozcan U, Cao Q, Yilmaz E, et al (2004) Endoplasmic reticulum stress links obesity, insulin action, and type 2 diabetes. Science 306:457–461

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deichmann U (2005) Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Filippini D (2013) Autonomous Sensor Networks: Collective Sensing Strategies for Analytical Purposes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fokoue A, Srivatsa M, Young R (2011) Trust-Based Probabilistic Query Answering. In: Bouguettaya A, Hauswirth M, Liu L (eds) Web Information System Engineering – WISE 2011: 12th International Conference, Sydney, Australia, October 13-14, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 57–71

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

Andrew E (2013) Man Makes 3D Printed Prosthetic Hand For Son For Only $10. 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 (2007) Public Transportation: Survey of Project Sponsors on Their Transit Projects and Experience with the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts and Small Starts Programs (GAO-07-927SP, July 2007), an E-supplement to GAO-07-917. 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

Farooq AS (2012) Singing the blues: Indicators of mental illness among nursing home elderly. 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

Greenhouse L (2005) A Ceremonial Start to the Session as the Supreme Court Welcomes a New Chief Justice. New York Times A25

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