How to format your references using the Environmental Technology Reviews citation style

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

Zachary DS. On the sustainability of an activity. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5215.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Raman KV, Moodera JS. Materials chemistry: A magnetic facelift for non-magnetic metals. Nature. 2015;524(7563):42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bloom DE, Canning D, Fink G. Urbanization and the wealth of nations. Science. 2008;319(5864):772–775.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Bielza C, Benavides-Piccione R, López-Cruz P, et al. Branching angles of pyramidal cell dendrites follow common geometrical design principles in different cortical areas. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5909.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Clayton LA. Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Streffer C. Radioactive Waste: Technical and Normative Aspects of its Disposal. Gethmann CF, Kamp G, Kröger W, et al., editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Farcas E, Pree W, Templ J. Bus Scheduling for TDL Components. In: Reussner RH, Stafford JA, Szyperski CA, editors. Architecting Systems with Trustworthy Components: International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 12-17, 2004 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 71–83.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Scientists Discover Secret To Butterfly’s Invisible Wings [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/invisible-butterflies/.

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. Responses to Questions for the Record; Hearing on The Future of Air Traffic Control: The R&D Agenda. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006. Report No.: GAO-06-778R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Robertson M. Respite efficacy for parents of adults with intellectual disabilities: An ethnographic perspective [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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]

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Environ. Technol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2162-2515
ISSN (online)	2162-2523
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