How to format your references using the International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Environmental Science and 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	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

Perkel JM (2015) Annotating the scholarly web. Nature 528:153–154

A journal article with 2 authors

Dubcovsky J, Dvorak J (2007) Genome plasticity a key factor in the success of polyploid wheat under domestication. Science 316:1862–1866

A journal article with 3 authors

Moreno E, Basler K, Morata G (2002) Cells compete for decapentaplegic survival factor to prevent apoptosis in Drosophila wing development. Nature 416:755–759

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sheard LB, Tan X, Mao H, et al (2010) Jasmonate perception by inositol-phosphate-potentiated COI1-JAZ co-receptor. Nature 468:400–405

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ushakov I (2012) Probabilistic Reliability Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Banaszkiewicz PA, Kader DF (eds) (2014) Classic Papers in Orthopaedics. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Ding N (2015) On Zero-Knowledge with Strict Polynomial-Time Simulation and Extraction from Differing-Input Obfuscation for Circuits. In: Lehmann A, Wolf S (eds) Information Theoretic Security: 8th International Conference, ICITS 2015, Lugano, Switzerland, May 2-5, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 51–68

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 International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Let’s Call It: 30 Years Of Above Average Temperatures Means The Climate Has Changed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/let-s-call-it-30-years-above-average-temperatures-means-climate-has-changed/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

Government Accountability Office (1985) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Broadcast Policies and Practices and the Board for International Broadcasting Oversight of Radio Programming. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Julian A (2017) Guided Autobiography Themes for Older Adult United States War Veterans. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Lundberg GD (2016) The N.F.L.’s Collision With the Future. New York Times A27

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Perkel 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dubcovsky and Dvorak 2007; Perkel 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Dubcovsky and Dvorak 2007)
Three or more authors: (Sheard et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. (Tehran)
ISSN (print)	1735-1472
ISSN (online)	1735-2630
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering