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

Service RF (2008) Problem solved* (*sort of). Science 321:784–786

A journal article with 2 authors

Odorizzi PM, Wherry EJ (2013) Immunology. An interferon paradox. Science 340:155–156

A journal article with 3 authors

Bradley J, Reuter D, Frings S (2001) Facilitation of calmodulin-mediated odor adaptation by cAMP-gated channel subunits. Science 294:2176–2178

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang Y-C, Huang T-K, Tung S-H, et al (2013) Self-assembled clay films with a platelet-void multilayered nanostructure and flame-blocking properties. Sci Rep 3:2621

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xu QA, Madden TL (2011) Analytical Methods for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Toxicology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lin CY-Y (2013) National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Gardbaum S (2016) Decoupling Judicial Review from Judicial Supremacy. In: Bustamante T, Gonçalves Fernandes B (eds) Democratizing Constitutional Law: Perspectives on Legal Theory and the Legitimacy of Constitutionalism. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 93–118

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 (2014) Crows Understand Displacement Better Than Six Year Olds. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crows-understand-displacement-better-six-year-olds/. 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 (1997) NASA’s Customer Satisfaction Measurements. 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

Britt AL (2014) The Long-Term Impact of Preschool Education on Student Achievement. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Stewart JB (2017) Tax Cuts Are Easy, but a Tax Overhaul? Three Proposals to Make the Math Work. New York Times B1

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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