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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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. Levin GV. O2- ions and the Mars labeled release response. Science. 2001;291:2041.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. Kampmann M, Blobel G. Biochemistry. Nascent proteins caught in the act. Science. 2009;326:1352–3.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Yamashita F, Fukuyama E, Omura K. Estimation of fault strength: reconstruction of stress before the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Science. 2004;306:261–3.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1. Montoro DT, Haber AL, Biton M, Vinarsky V, Lin B, Birket SE, et al. A revised airway epithelial hierarchy includes CFTR-expressing ionocytes. Nature. 2018;560:319–24.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Péra M-C, Hissel D, Gualous H, Turpin C. Electrochemical Components. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.
An edited book
1. Buchmann J, Ding J, editors. Post-Quantum Cryptography: Second International Workshop, PQCrypto 2008 Cincinnati, OH, USA, October 17-19, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.
A chapter in an edited book
1. Sanfelice Bazanella A, Campestrini L, Eckhard D. Convergence to the Globally Optimal Controller. In: Campestrini L, Eckhard D, editors. Data-Driven Controller Design: The H2 Approach. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 89–117.

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. Davis J. Vultures Caught Using Makeup for the First Time [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/egyptian-vultures-found-to-use-mud-as-makeup/

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. Performance and Accountability Highlights Fiscal Year 2007. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Jan. Report No.: GAO-08-2SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. Harris DW. An examination of the impact of computer-based animations and visualization sequence on student understanding of Hadley Cells in atmospheric circulation [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2012.

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. Brantley B. A Star Still Airlifts the Show. New York Times. 2017 Mar 24;C1.

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 titleJournal of Remanufacturing
ISSN (online)2210-4690
Scope

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