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]

Metzger RA. The stars my incarnation. Nature. 2000;408(6808):35.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wei H-R, Deng F-G. Scalable quantum computing based on stationary spin qubits in coupled quantum dots inside double-sided optical microcavities. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7551.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Victor DG, Gerlagh R, Baiocchi G. Climate policy. Getting serious about categorizing countries. Science. 2014;345(6192):34–36.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Brierley CM, Fedorov AV, Liu Z, et al. Greatly expanded tropical warm pool and weakened Hadley circulation in the early Pliocene. Science. 2009;323(5922):1714–1718.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Storhas W. Bioverfahrensentwicklung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Borchardt RT, Kerns EH, Hageman MJ, et al., editors. Optimizing the “Drug-Like” Properties of Leads in Drug Discovery. New York, NY: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhou J, Luo Z, Zhu Y, et al. Mercury Speciation Transformation During Coal Combustion. In: Luo Z, Zhu Y, Fang M, editors. Mercury Emission and its Control in Chinese Coal-Fired Power Plants. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 29–104.

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]

Carpineti A. NASA Set To Launch Swarm of Laser-Guided Cube Satellites [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-launch-swarm-laser-guided-cube-satellites/.

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. Internal Control Weaknesses in Army Safeguarding of Computer Equipment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992. Report No.: AFMD-92-60ML. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dzubaty DR. Understanding the undergraduate experience of the baccalaureate nursing student with English as an additional language [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 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]

Kelly M. Newly Selected Chief of Staff Is Widely Known for Loyalty. New York Times. 1992 Dec 13;134.

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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