How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 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 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

Hobson A: A model for madness? Nature 2004, 430:21.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ketting RF, Plasterk RH: A genetic link between co-suppression and RNA interference in C. elegans. Nature 2000, 404:296–298.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee C-Y, Robinson KJ, Doe CQ: Lgl, Pins and aPKC regulate neuroblast self-renewal versus differentiation. Nature 2006, 439:594–598.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lendlein A, Jiang H, Jünger O, Langer R: Light-induced shape-memory polymers. Nature 2005, 434:879–882.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Venkateshan SP: Mechanical Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Plüss C, Chan K-B (Eds): Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia. Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Hosseini S, Ibrahim F: Application of Biochips in Dengue Virus Detection. In Novel Polymeric Biochips for Enhanced Detection of Infectious Diseases. Edited by Ibrahim F. Springer; 2016:39–47.

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 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

Blog post

Luntz S: A Single Photon Entangles Thousands Of Atoms. IFLScience 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: Airport Improvement Program: Opportunity to Consider FAA’s Role in Meeting Airport System Needs. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tromp M: Bayesian monitoring of clinical trials: Examples using conjugate priors. 2015,

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

Crow K: Two Precincts, Two Worlds; East Flatbush: Stolen Cars, Murder in a Maroon Jeep. New York Times 2003,

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	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain.
ISSN (print)	1877-3435
Scope	General Environmental Science General Social Sciences