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. Schoof C. Ice-sheet acceleration driven by melt supply variability. Nature. 2010;468:803–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Herzberg C, Gazel E. Petrological evidence for secular cooling in mantle plumes. Nature. 2009;458:619–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Padian K, de Ricqlès AJ, Horner JR. Dinosaurian growth rates and bird origins. Nature. 2001;412:405–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang F, Podell ER, Zaug AJ, Yang Y, Baciu P, Cech TR, et al. The POT1-TPP1 telomere complex is a telomerase processivity factor. Nature. 2007;445:506–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Coleman DD, Westcott DA, Harkins BE. CWSP®: Certified Wireless Security Professional Study Guide CWSP-205. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Masoudi-Nejad A. Next Generation Sequencing and Sequence Assembly: Methodologies and Algorithms. Narimani Z, Hosseinkhan N, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Athanasiadou S, Houdijk JGM. Nutrition and Immunity in Animal Disease: Lessons from Parasitic Gastroenteritis. In: Watson RR, Zibadi S, Preedy VR, editors. Dietary Components and Immune Function. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2010. p. 63–74.

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 Current Pollution Reports.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. NASA Photographs Massive Crack In Antarctica Ice Shelf [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-photographs-massive-crack-in-antarctica-ice-shelf/

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. School-Age Children: Poverty and Diversity Challenge Schools Nationwide. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Mar. Report No.: T-HEHS-94-125.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Minger L. Examining Education Leadership Communication Practices around Basic and Advanced Skill Sets: A Multiple Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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. Neuman W. A Hammer Comes Down on an Honor for Britain. New York Times. 2014 Nov 20;A6.

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