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

Smaglik P (2004) Coping with the inevitable. Nature 430:1063

A journal article with 2 authors

Nelson WJ, Nusse R (2004) Convergence of Wnt, beta-catenin, and cadherin pathways. Science 303:1483–1487

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubilier N, McFall-Ngai M, Zhao L (2015) Microbiology: Create a global microbiome effort. Nature 526:631–634

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Reusch TB, Häberli MA, Aeschlimann PB, Milinski M (2001) Female sticklebacks count alleles in a strategy of sexual selection explaining MHC polymorphism. Nature 414:300–302

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wong KD (2011) Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Chaudhuri K, Gentile C, Zilles S (eds) (2015) Algorithmic Learning Theory: 26th International Conference, ALT 2015, Banff, AB, Canada, October 4-6, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Chopra N, Spong MW (2008) Output Synchronization of Nonlinear Systems with Relative Degree One. In: Blondel VD, Boyd SP, Kimura H (eds) Recent Advances in Learning and Control. Springer, London, pp 51–64

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) Hubble’s Ultraviolet Telescope Has Revealed More About The Stars Than We Could Ever See. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-s-ultraviolet-telescope-has-revealed-more-about-stars-we-could-ever-see/. 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 (1974) Problems of the Upward Bound Program in Preparing Disadvantaged Students for a Postsecondary Education. 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

Prather MR (2010) Pink, blues, blacks, and the Union Jack: Mod’s reinterpretation of Britishness, 1962-1964. 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

Greenhouse L (2007) Supreme Court Turns Down Detainees’ Habeas Corpus Case. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Nelson and Nusse 2004; Smaglik 2004).

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

Two authors: (Nelson and Nusse 2004)
Three or more authors: (Reusch et al. 2001)

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