How to format your references using the Waste and Biomass Valorization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Waste and Biomass Valorization. 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

DeWeerdt, S.: Animal models: Towards a myeloma mouse. Nature. 480, S38-9 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Kwon, O.-H., Zewail, A.H.: 4D electron tomography. Science. 328, 1668–1673 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Horodecki, M., Oppenheim, J., Winter, A.: Partial quantum information. Nature. 436, 673–676 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gao, Y.-G., Selmer, M., Dunham, C.M., Weixlbaumer, A., Kelley, A.C., Ramakrishnan, V.: The structure of the ribosome with elongation factor G trapped in the posttranslocational state. Science. 326, 694–699 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonald, T., Feuillet, M.: Network Performance Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Furnell, S., Katsikas, S.K., Lioy, A. eds: Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business: 5th International Conference, TrustBus 2008 Turin, Italy, September 4-5, 2008 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Grambow, G., Oberhauser, R., Reichert, M.: Enabling Automatic Process-Aware Collaboration Support in Software Engineering Projects. In: Escalona, M.J., Cordeiro, J., and Shishkov, B. (eds.) Software and Data Technologies: 6th International Conference, ICSOFT 2011, Seville, Spain, July 18-21, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. pp. 73–88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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 Waste and Biomass Valorization.

Blog post

Evans, K.: NASA Confirms Emergency Spacewalk After Key Equipment Failure On The ISS

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: Management Improvement in the Federal Government. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1986)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bozorgchami, B.: Time and Bandwidth Efficiency in Transmission of Telemedicine and In-Hospital Patient Data, (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

Gorman, J.: First Americans: This Dog Is Quite Proud, Despite All Appearances, (2017)

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	Waste and Biomass Valorization
Abbreviation	Waste Biomass Valorization
ISSN (print)	1877-2641
ISSN (online)	1877-265X
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Environmental Engineering Waste Management and Disposal