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

Lupascu A (2014) Quantum physics: The path most travelled. Nature 511:538–539

A journal article with 2 authors

May M, Davis J (2006) Preparing for the worst. Nature 443:907–908

A journal article with 3 authors

Hsiang SM, Meng KC, Cane MA (2011) Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate. Nature 476:438–441

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Blasiak LC, Vaillancourt FH, Walsh CT, Drennan CL (2006) Crystal structure of the non-haem iron halogenase SyrB2 in syringomycin biosynthesis. Nature 440:368–371

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zirngibl L (2005) Antifungal Azoles. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Dunphy CH (2010) Molecular Pathology of Hematolymphoid Diseases. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Han Y, Saxena S (2013) Algorithms for Testing Length Four Permutations. In: Fellows M, Tan X, Zhu B (eds) Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: Third Joint International Conference, FAW-AAIM 2013, Dalian, China, June 26-28, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 17–23

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

Hamilton K (2015) Quadruple Amputee Dog Receives Four Prosthetic Paws. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/quadruple-amputee-dog-receives-four-prosthetic-paws/. 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 (1976) Why NASA’s Property Accounting and Control System Should Be Improved. 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

Braynen W (2012) Beyond Price Signaling: Choice, Information and Justice. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Gustines GG (2016) The Newest Superpower: Passing Through Network Walls. New York Times C5

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

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