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

Yahia M (2011) Global health: a uniquely Egyptian epidemic. Nature 474:S12-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Jayawardhana R, Ivanov VD (2006) Discovery of a young planetary-mass binary. Science 313:1279–1281

A journal article with 3 authors

Bragg AE, Cavanagh MC, Schwartz BJ (2008) Linear response breakdown in solvation dynamics induced by atomic electron-transfer reactions. Science 321:1817–1822

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zebker HA, Stiles B, Hensley S, et al (2009) Size and shape of Saturn’s moon Titan. Science 324:921–923

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dowrick DJ (2005) Earthquake Risk Reduction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Feng J (2015) Index and Query Methods in Road Networks. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ploux F (2008) Violence in France’s Past: An Anthropological Approach. In: Body-Gendrot S, Spierenburg P (eds) Violence in Europe. Springer, New York, NY, pp 65–78

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) Great White Shark Pops Up To Say Hello. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/close-encounter-shark-kind-australian-filmmaker-dave-riggs/. 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 (2012) Slot-Controlled Airports: FAA’s Rules Could Be Improved to Enhance Competition and Use of Available Capacity. 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

Cady SC (2013) Successful student goal completion: A community college case study. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Williams J (2017) The Inexhaustible Four. New York Times BR4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yahia 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Jayawardhana and Ivanov 2006; Yahia 2011).

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

Two authors: (Jayawardhana and Ivanov 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zebker et al. 2009)

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