How to format your references using the Journal of Remanufacturing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Remanufacturing. 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

1. Purnell BA. Forces in development. Forceful thinking. Introduction. Science. 2012;338:209.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Mossel E, Vigoda E. Phylogenetic MCMC algorithms are misleading on mixtures of trees. Science. 2005;309:2207–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kainulainen J, Federrath C, Henning T. Unfolding the laws of star formation: the density distribution of molecular clouds. Science. 2014;344:183–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Akkerman HB, Blom PWM, de Leeuw DM, de Boer B. Towards molecular electronics with large-area molecular junctions. Nature. 2006;441:69–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Groves E. The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. O¿Donnell RW. Intellectual Property in the Food Technology Industry: Protecting Your Innovation. O¿Malley JJ, Huis RJ, Halt GB Jr, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Klein A. BPS-MAC: Backoff Preamble Based MAC Protocol with Sequential Contention Resolution. In: Sacchi C, Bellalta B, Vinel A, Schlegel C, Granelli F, Zhang Y, editors. Multiple Access Communications: 4th International Workshop, MACOM 2011, Trento, Italy, September 12-13, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 39–50.

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 Remanufacturing.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Sperm Whales Learn Local Dialects – New Study Is Yet More Proof That Animals Have Culture. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Space Acquisitions: Assessment of Overhead Persistent Infrared Technology Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Jan. Report No.: GAO-14-287R.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Eyers BM. An Analysis of Remote Biometric Authentication with Windows [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2011.

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

1. Stewart JB. For Some C.E.O.s, a Trump Invitation Is Risky Business. New York Times. 2017 Feb 16;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 Remanufacturing
ISSN (online)	2210-4690
Scope