How to format your references using the Recycling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Recycling. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Odame, I. Perspective: We Need a Global Solution. Nature 2014, 515, S10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Takano, Y.; Ukezono, M. An Experimental Task to Examine the Mirror System in Rats. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pelli, D.G.; Farell, B.; Moore, D.C. The Remarkable Inefficiency of Word Recognition. Nature 2003, 423, 752–756.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Andrews, O.E.; Cha, D.J.; Wei, C.; Patton, J.G. RNAi-Mediated Gene Silencing in Zebrafish Triggered by Convergent Transcription. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5222.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodda, H.J.E.; Little, M.A. Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015; ISBN 9781119077985.

An edited book

Fractal Geometry and Stochastics V; Bandt, C., Falconer, K., Zähle, M., Eds.; Progress in Probability; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; Vol. 70; ISBN 9783319186597.

A chapter in an edited book

Ganghishetti, P.; Vadlamani, R. Association Rule Mining via Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization. In Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 8th International Workshop, MIWAI 2014, Bangalore, India, December 8-10, 2014. Proceedings; Murty, M.N., He, X., Chillarige, R.R., Weng, P., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 35–46 ISBN 9783319133645.

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 Recycling.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Scientists Want To Collect Whale Boogers Using Flying Drones Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-want-collect-whale-boogers-using-flying-drones/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Transition From School to Work: S. 1361 Addresses Components of Comprehensive Strategy; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1993;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grace, J. A Correlational Study of the Relationship Between TEAS V and Success in Licensed Practical Nursing Students. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 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

Lambert, B.; Chang, S. After Legal Battle, Nassau Leader Is Re-Elected. New York Times 2006, B4.

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	Recycling
ISSN (online)	2313-4321
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