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

Laursen, L. 2010. Interdisciplinary research: Big science at the table. Nature 468:S2-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rydelek, P. A. and M. Tuttle. 2004. Explosive craters and soil liquefaction. Nature 427:115–116.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ofstad, T. A., C. S. Zuker, and M. B. Reiser. 2011. Visual place learning in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 474:204–207.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Banavath, H. N., O. P. Sharma, M. S. Kumar, and R. Baskaran. 2014. Identification of novel tyrosine kinase inhibitors for drug resistant T315I mutant BCR-ABL: a virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulations study. Scientific reports 4:6948.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Trimble, M. R. and M. S. George. 2010. Biological Psychiatry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Terano, T., H. Kita, H. Deguchi, and K. Kijima, editors. 2007. Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems IV: Post-Proceedings of The AESCS International Workshop 2005. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Broersen, J. 2014. A stit Logic Analysis of Morally Lucky and Legally Lucky Action Outcomes. Pages 75–98 in T. Müller (ed), Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action. 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. 2014, November 21. The Unknown CrocodilesIFLScience. : IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/unknown-crocodiles-0/.

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. 1979. Overpayment of Title I Funds at the Richmond City Public School System During FY 1978. 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

Miramontes, A. J. 2017. Examining eye fixation patterns during the Situation Present Assessment Method (SPAM) under varying levels of workload. Doctoral dissertation, : California State University, Long Beach.

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

Koblin, J. 2017, July 21. Another Williams Takes His Turn. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laursen 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Rydelek and Tuttle 2004, Laursen 2010).

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

Two authors: (Rydelek and Tuttle 2004)
Three or more authors: (Banavath et al. 2014)

About the journal

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