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. Marks TJ. Retrospective: Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007). Science. 2007;316:214.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fehr E, Rockenbach B. Detrimental effects of sanctions on human altruism. Nature. 2003;422:137–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Liu D, Amagai S, Bricken J. Science education. Engaging teachers, scientists, and multimedia to promote learning. Science. 2012;336:1509.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Field J, Shreeves G, Sumner S, Casiraghi M. Insurance-based advantage to helpers in a tropical hover wasp. Nature. 2000;404:869–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Reinhardt H-W. Ingenieurbaustoffe. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2010.

An edited book

1. Louys J, editor. Paleontology in Ecology and Conservation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Buhl S, McColl D. “METEORITE IN A CRATER.” In: McColl D, editor. Henbury Craters and Meteorites: Their Discovery, History and Study. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 42–53.

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. Scientists Discover A Potential Anti-HIV Protein In Corals [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-discover-potential-anti-hiv-protein-corals/

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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Federal Efforts to Ensure Continued Delivery of Key State-Administered Benefits. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Jul. Report No.: T-AIMD-99-241.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Littlefield S. Application of Discrete Event Simulation to Modeling Reliability of Highly Parallel Systems with Common Cause Failures [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2017.

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. George R. ... And Sewage, Too. New York Times. 2010 Apr 28;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 Remanufacturing
ISSN (online)	2210-4690
Scope