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]

N. Guillén, Infection biology: Nibbled to death, Nature 508 (2014) 462–463.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Shen, L.C. Ho, The diversity of quasars unified by accretion and orientation, Nature 513 (2014) 210–213.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Pichersky, J.P. Noel, N. Dudareva, Biosynthesis of plant volatiles: nature’s diversity and ingenuity, Science 311 (2006) 808–811.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W.O.H. Hughes, B.P. Oldroyd, M. Beekman, F.L.W. Ratnieks, Ancestral monogamy shows kin selection is key to the evolution of eusociality, Science 320 (2008) 1213–1216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, American Industrial Hygiene Association, Continuous Monitoring for Hazardous Material Releases, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

A. Tasić, W.A. Serdijn, L.E. Larson, G. Setti, eds., Circuits and Systems for Future Generations of Wireless Communications, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Speed, Last Words on Anova?, in: S. Dudoit (Ed.), Selected Works of Terry Speed, Springer, New York, NY, 2012: pp. 141–275.

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]

R. Andrews, “Lucy” May Have Lived Alongside Several Of Her Evolutionary Cousins In Ancient Africa, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lucy-may-have-lived-alongside-several-of-her-evolutionary-cousins-in-ancient-africa/ (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, Digital Television Transition: Increased Federal Planning and Risk Management Could Further Facilitate the DTV Transition, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.E. Kranz, Body, Land, and Memory: Counter-Narratives in the Poetry of Minnie Bruce Pratt, Brenda Marie Osbey, and Natasha Trethewey, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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]

E. St. John Kelly, Serial Shoppers Who Terrorize Real Estate Agents, New York Times (2000) 144.

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