How to format your references using the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. 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

[1]

P. Gordon, Numerical cognition without words: evidence from Amazonia, Science 306 (2004) 496–499.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T.L. Hunt, C.P. Lipo, Late colonization of Easter Island, Science 311 (2006) 1603–1606.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Dominguez, G. Wilkins, M.H. Thiemens, The Soret effect and isotopic fractionation in high-temperature silicate melts, Nature 473 (2011) 70–73.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.E. Lenski, C. Ofria, R.T. Pennock, C. Adami, The evolutionary origin of complex features, Nature 423 (2003) 139–144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E.S. Berntsen, J. Thompson, A Guide to Starting Your Hedge Fund, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

I. Doucet, N. Janssens, eds., Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism: Towards Hybrid Modes of Inquiry, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Guck, T. Han, J.-P. Katoen, M.R. Neuhäußer, Quantitative Timed Analysis of Interactive Markov Chains, in: A.E. Goodloe, S. Person (Eds.), NASA Formal Methods: 4th International Symposium, NFM 2012, Norfolk, VA, USA, April 3-5, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 8–23.

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 Environmental Chemical Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Salmonella Could Be Used To Fight Brain Tumors, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/salmonella-could-used-treat-fight-brain-tumors/ (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, Emergency Management: Most School Districts Have Developed Emergency Management Plans, but Would Benefit from Additional Federal Guidance, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Koyanagi, Design and Synthesis of Archaea-Inspired Tetraether Lipids, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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

[1]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Children Now As Deprived As After War, New York Times (2005) A10.

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 Environmental Chemical Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2213-3437
Scope	Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) Process Chemistry and Technology Pollution Waste Management and Disposal