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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
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]
J. Wang, DNA polymerases: Hoogsteen base-pairing in DNA replication?, Nature 437 (2005) E6-7; discussion E7.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
I.-H. Chou, T. Chouard, Neuropsychiatric disease, Nature 455 (2008) 889.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
S.K. Singh, A. Yamashita, E. Gouaux, Antidepressant binding site in a bacterial homologue of neurotransmitter transporters, Nature 448 (2007) 952–956.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
A.M. Pregueiro, Q. Liu, C.L. Baker, J.C. Dunlap, J.J. Loros, The Neurospora checkpoint kinase 2: a regulatory link between the circadian and cell cycles, Science 313 (2006) 644–649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
G.M. Evans, J.C. Furlong, Environmental Biotechnology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010.
An edited book
[1]
H. Mohanty, P. Bhuyan, D. Chenthati, eds., Big Data: A Primer, Springer India, New Delhi, 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
R.J. Holt, A.P.H. Weightman, J.F. Gallagher, N. Preston, M.C. Levesley, M. Mon-Williams, B. Bhakta, Deploying a Two-Player System for Arm Rehabilitation in Schools, in: P. Langdon, J. Clarkson, P. Robinson, J. Lazar, A. Heylighen (Eds.), Designing Inclusive Systems: Designing Inclusion for Real-World Applications, Springer, London, 2012: pp. 33–41.

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]
J. Fang, Astronomers Spot ENORMOUS Black Hole From The Dawn Of The Universe, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/supermassive-black-hole-discovered-early-universe/ (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, Report to the Secretary, HEW, on the National Direct Student Loan Delinquency Rate, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
A.L. Hensley, Gender, personality, and coping: Unraveling gender in military post -deployment physical and mental wellness, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2009.

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]
B. Hubbard, Bahrain Executes 3 Shiites Convicted in Deadly Bomb Attack on the Police, New York Times (2017) A9.

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 the European Ceramic Society
AbbreviationJ. Eur. Ceram. Soc.
ISSN (print)0955-2219
ScopeCeramics and Composites
Materials Chemistry

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