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]

Begelman M. Astronomy. A flare for acceleration. Science. 2009;325(5939):399–400.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tuthill PG, Lloyd JP. A symmetric bipolar nebula around MWC 922. Science. 2007;316(5822):247.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jensen K, Call J, Tomasello M. Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game. Science. 2007;318(5847):107–109.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Sansone G, Kelkensberg F, Pérez-Torres JF, et al. Electron localization following attosecond molecular photoionization. Nature. 2010;465(7299):763–766.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dosil J. Eating Disorders in Athletes. Chichester, West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Gonzalez MJ. New Insights on Vitamin C and Cancer. Miranda-Massari JR, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Boixadera J, Antúnez M, Poch RM. Soil Evolution Along a Toposequence on Glacial and Periglacial Materials in the Pyrenees Range. In: Kapur S, Mermut A, Stoops G, editors. New Trends in Soil Micromorphology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 39–65.

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]

Luntz S. First Feathers In Amber Matched To A Specific Dinosaur. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Surface Transportation: The Department of Transportation Proposes Significant Changes to Its Automated Highway System Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997. Report No.: RCED-97-177R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Moretto L. Exploring the Nature of the Relationship Between Decision-Driven Scenarios and Decision Confidence in High-Velocity Environments [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2012.

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]

McGEEHAN P, Santora M. Chaos and Terror for Commuters After Train ‘Flew Through the Air.’ New York Times. 2016 Sep 29;A25.

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