How to format your references using the Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Bell LE (2008) Cooling, heating, generating power, and recovering waste heat with thermoelectric systems. Science 321:1457–1461
A journal article with 2 authors
Süsstrunk R, Huber SD (2015) PHYSICS. Observation of phononic helical edge states in a mechanical topological insulator. Science 349:47–50
A journal article with 3 authors
Smith J, Theodoris C, Davidson EH (2007) A gene regulatory network subcircuit drives a dynamic pattern of gene expression. Science 318:794–797
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Metallo CM, Gameiro PA, Bell EL, et al (2011) Reductive glutamine metabolism by IDH1 mediates lipogenesis under hypoxia. Nature 481:380–384

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Baudin P (2014) Wireless Transceiver Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK
An edited book
Hsu C-H, Yang LT, Ma J, Zhu C (eds) (2011) Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing: 8th International Conference, UIC 2011, Banff, Canada, September 2-4, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
A chapter in an edited book
Paré A (2011) Speaking of Writing: Supervisory Feedback and the Dissertation. In: McAlpine L, Amundsen C (eds) Doctoral Education: Research-Based Strategies for Doctoral Students, Supervisors and Administrators. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 59–74

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 Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy.

Blog post
Fang J (2014) Octomom Brooded Her Eggs for Record-Breaking Four-and-a-Half Years. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1993) Hubble Space Telescope. 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
Lawary Y (2014) A Comparison of How Three Four-Year University Teacher Education Programs Prepare Pre-Service Teachers to Use Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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
Hubbard B, Sengupta S (2016) Russia Backs U.N. Vote to Send Monitors to Aleppo, as Evacuations Resume. New York Times A8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bell 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bell 2008; Süsstrunk and Huber 2015).

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

  • Two authors: (Süsstrunk and Huber 2015)
  • Three or more authors: (Metallo et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal titleClean Technologies and Environmental Policy
AbbreviationClean Technol. Environ. Policy
ISSN (print)1618-954X
ISSN (online)1618-9558
ScopeEnvironmental Chemistry
Environmental Engineering
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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