How to format your references using the Current Pollution Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Pollution Reports. 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

1. Dangl JL. Plant science. Nibbling at the plant cell nucleus. Science. 2007;315:1088–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vaia R, Baur J. Materials science. Adaptive composites. Science. 2008;319:420–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Suzuki G, Shimazu N, Tanaka M. A yeast prion, Mod5, promotes acquired drug resistance and cell survival under environmental stress. Science. 2012;336:355–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kuo W-J, Sjöström T, Chen Y-P, Wang Y-H, Huang C-Y. Intuition and deliberation: two systems for strategizing in the brain. Science. 2009;324:519–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Gup BE. Banking and Financial Institutions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Orrell J, Curtis DD, editors. Publishing Higher Degree Research: Making the Transition from Student to Researcher. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pestana EA, Belak S, Diallo A, Crowther JR, Viljoen GJ. Disease Diagnosis Using Real-Time PCR Specific Procedures for Important Veterinary Pathogens. In: Belak S, Diallo A, Crowther JR, Viljoen GJ, editors. Early, rapid and sensitive veterinary molecular diagnostics - real time PCR applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 73–234.

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 Pollution Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Massive Haul Of Meteorites Found In Iranian Desert [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/massive-haul-meteorites-found-iranian-desert/

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. Information Technology: Implementation of Reform Legislation Needed to Improve Acquisitions and Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Nov. Report No.: GAO-16-204T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Stahl-Kovell DW. Reimagining red power: Native American community, activism, and academics in postwar America [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Feeney K. One Stop for Homey or Haute. New York Times. 2007 Dec 2;14NJ14.

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 Pollution Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Pollut. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2198-6592
Scope