How to format your references using the Journal of the European Ceramic Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 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	Download the output style file
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]

D.K. Bilkey, Neuroscience. In the place space, Science 305 (2004) 1245–1246.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Ticozzi, L. Viola, Quantum resources for purification and cooling: fundamental limits and opportunities, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5192.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Deroche-Gamonet, D. Belin, P.V. Piazza, Evidence for addiction-like behavior in the rat, Science 305 (2004) 1014–1017.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Autran, G. Carcelain, B. Combadiere, P. Debre, Therapeutic vaccines for chronic infections, Science 305 (2004) 205–208.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F. Picard, C. Tanguy, Innovations and Techno-ecological Transition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

R. Stockmann, W. Meyer, eds., The Future of Evaluation: Global Trends, New Challenges, Shared Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Bose, C. Das, A. Chakraborty, S. Chattopadhyay, Effectiveness of Different Partition Based Clustering Algorithms for Estimation of Missing Values in Microarray Gene Expression Data, in: N. Meghanathan, D. Nagamalai, N. Chaki (Eds.), Advances in Computing and Information Technology: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Computing and Information Technology (ACITY) July 13-15, 2012, Chennai, India - Volume 2, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 37–47.

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 the European Ceramic Society.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Is The Zika Panic Over?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zika-panic-over/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Problems Plague National Weather Service ADP System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Casco, Consonance: An inter play of music and design to evoke curiosity and awareness of our musical identity, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

THEODORE HERMANBONNIE BURKEDANIEL ROTHFRANKLIN L. TOWBERMARK ARONOFFKATHLEEN KELLY(Prof.) HOWARD A. SCARROWSTEPHEN JOEL TRACHTENBERG, Letters; America’s Burden in the Afghanistan Crisis Impotence in the Face of Soviet Aggression Let Russian Commerce Have an Ice-Free Port Set for San Juan Hill? The Sounds Of Mandarin Sex and the Monarchy A Single-Issue Party’s Clout Errant Philanthropy, New York Times (1980) The Week In ReviewE20.

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 the European Ceramic Society
Abbreviation	J. Eur. Ceram. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0955-2219
Scope	Ceramics and Composites Materials Chemistry