How to format your references using the Environmental Technology citation style

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

[1]

Okasha S. Altruism researchers must cooperate. Nature. 2010;467(7316):653–655.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Daily GC, Walker BH. Seeking the great transition. Nature. 2000;403(6767):243–245.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Day M, Langston R, Morris RGM. Glutamate-receptor-mediated encoding and retrieval of paired-associate learning. Nature. 2003;424(6945):205–209.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Boström KJ, de Lussanet MHE, Weiss T, et al. A computational model unifies apparently contradictory findings concerning phantom pain. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5298.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kent J. ADA in Details. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Pereira MF, Shulika O, editors. Terahertz and Mid Infrared Radiation: Generation, Detection and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gu M, Aslanyan Z, Probst CW. Understanding How Components of Organisations Contribute to Attacks. In: Brumley BB, Röning J, editors. Secure IT Systems: 21st Nordic Conference, NordSec 2016, Oulu, Finland, November 2-4, 2016 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 54–66.

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 Environmental Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Amoeba Eats Cells Alive, Spits out Corpses [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/amoeba-eats-cells-alive-spits-out-corpses/.

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. CEC Sale of Federal Spectrum. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996. Report No.: NSIAD-97-40R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hall S. The use of art therapy to address psychosocial stress among men living with HIV: A grant proposal project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2011.

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]

Kelly C. Physical Therapy and the Camaraderie of Healing. New York Times. 2009 Feb 17;D5.

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	Environmental Technology
Abbreviation	Environ. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0959-3330
ISSN (online)	1479-487X
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Waste Management and Disposal Water Science and Technology General Medicine