How to format your references using the Journal of Cleaner Production citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cleaner Production. 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 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

Anson, L., 2009. Membrane protein biophysics. Nature 459, 343.

A journal article with 2 authors

Armstrong, J.B., Schindler, D.E., 2011. Excess digestive capacity in predators reflects a life of feast and famine. Nature 476, 84–87.

A journal article with 3 authors

Betrouche, M., Maamache, M., Choi, J.R., 2013. Novel characteristics of energy spectrum for 3D Dirac oscillator analyzed via Lorentz covariant deformed algebra. Sci. Rep. 3, 3221.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ventura, M., Antonacci, F., Cardone, M.F., Stanyon, R., D’Addabbo, P., Cellamare, A., Sprague, L.J., Eichler, E.E., Archidiacono, N., Rocchi, M., 2007. Evolutionary formation of new centromeres in macaque. Science 316, 243–246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Röpke, G., 2013. Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Scaglione, M., 2012. La TCMD nel trauma ad elevata energia, Springer ABC. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, F., Yang, H., Han, F., 2016. Containment Control of Second-Order Multi-Agent Systems with Jointly-Connected Topologies and Varying Delays, in: Jia, Y., Du, J., Li, H., Zhang, W. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference: Volume 2, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 45–53.

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 Cleaner Production.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Where Will The Next Generation Of Nobel Prize Winners Come From? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/where-will-next-generation-nobel-prize-winners-come/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1980. A Look at NASA’s Aircraft Energy Efficiency Program (No. PSAD-80-50). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meyertholen, A.N., 2014. Blurring the lines: The invention of abstract in German literature since 1800 (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Third-Party Candidate; Perot’s Vision: Consensus by Computer. New York Times 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Anson, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Anson, 2009; Armstrong and Schindler, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Armstrong and Schindler, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Ventura et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cleaner Production
Abbreviation	J. Clean. Prod.
ISSN (print)	0959-6526
Scope	Strategy and Management Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering General Environmental Science