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]

Frenkel D. Colloidal systems. Playing tricks with designer “atoms.” Science. 2002;296(5565):65–66.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Aβmann M, Bayer M. Compressive adaptive computational ghost imaging. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1545.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Assender H, Bliznyuk V, Porfyrakis K. How surface topography relates to materials’ properties. Science. 2002;297(5583):973–976.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

An Z, Clemens SC, Shen J, et al. Glacial-interglacial Indian summer monsoon dynamics. Science. 2011;333(6043):719–723.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kulinkovich OG. Cyclopropanes in Organic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Novak JM. Leading For Educational Lives: Inviting and Sustaining Imaginative Acts of Hope in a Connected World. Armstrong DE, Browne B, editors. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Andrews B, Hopper C. Short-Time Existence. In: Hopper C, editor. The Ricci Flow in Riemannian Geometry: A Complete Proof of the Differentiable 1/4-Pinching Sphere Theorem. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 83–95.

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]

Hale T. Scientists Discover New Type Of Whirling Blue Fire [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-discover-new-type-of-whirling-blue-fire/.

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. Education of Homeless Students: Improved Program Oversight Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014. Report No.: GAO-14-465. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ellerbrock G. Intergenerational Ontology & Leadership: Uniting the Multigenerational Workforce [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2017.

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]

Craig S. Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties. New York Times. 2016 Aug 21;A1.

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
Scope