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]

A. Katsnelson, Drug development: target practice, Nature. 498 (2013) S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Sugarman, A.W. Siegel, Research ethics. When embryonic stem cell lines fail to meet consent standards, Science. 322 (2008) 379.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Otto, R.L.E. Furlan, J.K.M. Sanders, Selection and amplification of hosts from dynamic combinatorial libraries of macrocyclic disulfides, Science. 297 (2002) 590–593.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.S. Seo, J.-Y. Yang, M. Ishikawa, C. Bolle, M.L. Ballesteros, N.-H. Chua, LAF1 ubiquitination by COP1 controls photomorphogenesis and is stimulated by SPA1, Nature. 423 (2003) 995–999.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.M. Gupta, N. Gupta, Advanced Electrical and Electronics Materials, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

O. Semenov, ESD Protection Device and Circuit Design for Advanced CMOS Technologies, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Adaricheva, J.B. Nation, Lattices of Algebraic Subsets and Implicational Classes, in: G. Grätzer, F. Wehrung (Eds.), Lattice Theory: Special Topics and Applications: Volume 2, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 103–151.

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, How We Plan To Bring Dark Matter To Light, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-we-plan-bring-dark-matter-light/ (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, Government’s Efforts To Standardize Data Elements and Codes for Computer Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G.J. Reyes-Rodriguez, Nucleophilic additions to a para-benzyne derived from an enediyne: Exploring the non-radical reactivity of a diradical, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2013.

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]

K. Crow, Beyond the Finish Line, Where Should Fans Gather?, New York Times. (2000) 146.

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