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]

Sanchez PA. Ecology. Soil fertility and hunger in Africa. Science. 2002;295:2019–2020.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dibner C, Schibler U. METABOLISM. A pancreatic clock times insulin release. Science. 2015;350:628–629.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mariani FV, Ahn CP, Martin GR. Genetic evidence that FGFs have an instructive role in limb proximal-distal patterning. Nature. 2008;453:401–405.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kukushkin IV, Smet JH, Scarola VW, et al. Dispersion of the excitations of fractional quantum Hall States. Science. 2009;324:1044–1047.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rezg N, Dellagi S, Khatab A. Joint Optimization of Maintenance and Production Policies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Craciun A, Schaffer S, editors. The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cheung S, Dutertre B, Lindqvist U. Detecting Disruptive Routers in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Kunz T, Ravi SS, editors. Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks: 5th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2006, Ottawa, Canada, August 17-19, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 19–31.

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. Coming Soon: Brain Implant To Restore Memory. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. School Facilities: Accessibility for the Disabled Still an Issue. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995. Report No.: HEHS-96-73. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Meluzzi D. Computational Analysis of DNA Interactions to Investigate the Spatial Organization of Chromatin [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 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]

Brantley B. Broadway’s Savior Meets His Match. New York Times. 2016 Sep 9;C1.

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

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