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

Pierrehumbert RT (2004) Warming the world. Nature 432:677

A journal article with 2 authors

Chesson P, Kuang JJ (2008) The interaction between predation and competition. Nature 456:235–238

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo Y, Yang Y, Chen Z (2014) Self-tuning wireless power transmission scheme based on on-line scattering parameters measurement and two-side power matching. Sci Rep 4:4332

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kilner PJ, Yang GZ, Wilkes AJ, et al (2000) Asymmetric redirection of flow through the heart. Nature 404:759–761

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peterson RL, Murtha FF (2010) MarketPsych. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cook HE (2007) Value Driven Product Planning and Systems Engineering. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Kitraki E (2014) BPA Effects In Vivo: Evidence from Animal Studies. In: Eliades T, Eliades G (eds) Plastics in Dentistry and Estrogenicity: A Guide to Safe Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 89–114

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 (2014) New Synthetic Platelets Capable Of Rapidly Stopping Bleeding. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-synthetic-platelets-capable-rapidly-stopping-bleeding/. 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 (2006) Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Made Progress in Managing a Federal Security Workforce and Ensuring Security at U.S. Airports, but Challenges Remain. 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

Krishnan R (2014) Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm for Ordered and Unordered Sets. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Pilon M (2013) Drug-Testing Company Tied to N.C.A.A. Stirs Criticism. New York Times SP1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pierrehumbert 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Pierrehumbert 2004; Chesson and Kuang 2008).

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

Two authors: (Chesson and Kuang 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kilner et al. 2000)

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