How to format your references using the Ecological Restoration citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ecological Restoration. 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

Mollenauer, L. F. 2003. Physics. Nonlinear optics in fibers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302:996–997.

A journal article with 2 authors

Makiura, R. and O. Konovalov. 2013. Interfacial growth of large-area single-layer metal-organic framework nanosheets. Scientific reports 3:2506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karnath, H. O., S. Ferber, and M. Himmelbach. 2001. Spatial awareness is a function of the temporal not the posterior parietal lobe. Nature 411:950–953.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pyzalla, A., B. Camin, T. Buslaps, M. Di Michiel, H. Kaminski, A. Kottar, A. Pernack, and W. Reimers. 2005. Simultaneous tomography and diffraction analysis of creep damage. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308:92–95.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wright, D. 2016. Using Commercial Contracts. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Golbeck, J. H., editor. 2006. Photosystem I: The Light-Driven Plastocyanin:Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kroon, F. 2016. The Radical Emptiness of Empty Terms: Saving the Buddhists from the Nyāya. Pages 39–53 in P. Bilimoria and M. Hemmingsen (eds), Comparative Philosophy and J.L. Shaw. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Ecological Restoration.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015, January 7. Higher IQ Linked To Reduced Risk of SchizophreniaIFLScience. : IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/higher-iq-linked-reduced-risk-schizophrenia/.

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. 1996. Department of Education: Status of Actions to Improve the Management of Student Financial Aid. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Plumer, D. R. 2010. The relationship between earned value management metrics and customer satisfaction. Doctoral dissertation, : Northcentral 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

Kenigsberg, B. 2017, July 27. From the Land of the Moon. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mollenauer 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Mollenauer 2003, Makiura and Konovalov 2013).

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

Two authors: (Makiura and Konovalov 2013)
Three or more authors: (Pyzalla et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ecological Restoration
ISSN (print)	1522-4740
ISSN (online)	1543-4079
Scope	Nature and Landscape Conservation