How to format your references using the International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion (IJEMCP). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Dalton, R., Transgenic Corn Found Growing in Mexico, Nature, vol. 413, no. 6854, p. 337, September 27, 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lieberman, R. L. and Rosenzweig, A. C., Crystal Structure of a Membrane-Bound Metalloenzyme That Catalyses the Biological Oxidation of Methane, Nature, vol. 434, no. 7030, pp. 177–82, March 10, 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCauley, E., Nelson, W. A. and Nisbet, R. M., Small-Amplitude Cycles Emerge from Stage-Structured Interactions in Daphnia-Algal Systems, Nature, vol. 455, no. 7217, pp. 1240–43, October 30, 2008.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Atkinson, P. J., Wise, A. K., Flynn, B. O., Nayagam, B. A. and Richardson, R. T., Viability of Long-Term Gene Therapy in the Cochlea, Scientific Reports, vol. 4, p. 4733, April 22, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones, R. B., 20% Chance of Rain, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Pant, M., Deep, K., Bansal, J. C., Nagar, A., and Das, K. N. Eds., Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving: SocProS 2015, Volume 1, Singapore: Springer, XIX, 1063 p. 478 illus, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Povh, B., Rith, K., Scholz, C., Zetsche, F. and Rodejohann, W., Scattering, in Particles and Nuclei: An Introduction to the Physical Concepts, K. Rith C. Scholz F. Zetsche and W. Rodejohann, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 41–53, 2015.

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 International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion.

Blog post

Andrew, E., Health Warning: Five Fashion Trends That Are Terrible For You, IFLScience, June 26, 2015.

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, Teacher Preparation: Multiple Federal Education Offices Support Teacher Preparation for Instructing Students with Disabilities and English Language Learners, but Systematic Departmentwide Coordination Could Enhance This Assistance, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-09-573, Jul. 20, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kamis, R. P., The Relationship between Expanded Concepts of Self and Well-Being, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 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

Kishkovsky, S., Critics See Kremlin’s Hand in Charges Against Ex-K.G.B. Agent, New York Times, December 12, 2004.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton, 2001; Lieberman et al., 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lieberman et al., 2005)
Three or more authors: (Atkinson et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion
ISSN (print)	2150-766X
ISSN (online)	2150-7678
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