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:

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

Smaglik P (2002) Lessons in career planning. Nature 418:3

A journal article with 2 authors

Bostwick KS, Prum RO (2005) Courting bird sings with stridulating wing feathers. Science 309:736

A journal article with 3 authors

McCloskey J, Nalbant SS, Steacy S (2005) Indonesian earthquake: earthquake risk from co-seismic stress. Nature 434:291

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schramke V, Sheedy DM, Denli AM, et al (2005) RNA-interference-directed chromatin modification coupled to RNA polymerase II transcription. Nature 435:1275–1279

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mamishev A, Williams S (2010) Technical Writing for Teams. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Okunieff P, Williams J, Chen Y (eds) (2005) Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXVI. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Šalak A, Selecká M (2012) Alloying and sintering of manganese steels by manganese vapour. In: Selecká M (ed) Manganese in Powder Metallurgy Steels. Cambridge International Science Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, pp 39–71

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

Andrew D (2016) Genetic Testing Isn’t A Crystal Ball For Your Health. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/genetic-testing-isnt-a-crystal-ball-for-your-health/. 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 (2001) Medicare: Information Systems Modernization Needs Stronger Management and Support. 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

Nelson PT (2008) Sound as a gateway to a personal relationship with nature. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Urbina I (2015) Tricked While on Land, Abused or Killed at Sea. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Bostwick and Prum 2005).

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

Two authors: (Bostwick and Prum 2005)
Three or more authors: (Schramke et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
Abbreviation	Clean Technol. Environ. Policy
ISSN (print)	1618-954X
ISSN (online)	1618-9558
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law