How to format your references using the Restoration Ecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Restoration Ecology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Krug RM (2006) Virology. Clues to the virulence of H5N1 viruses in humans. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311:1562–1563

A journal article with 2 authors

Pak DTS, Sheng M (2003) Targeted protein degradation and synapse remodeling by an inducible protein kinase. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302:1368–1373

A journal article with 3 authors

MacAlister CA, Ohashi-Ito K, Bergmann DC (2007) Transcription factor control of asymmetric cell divisions that establish the stomatal lineage. Nature 445:537–540

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mariathasan S, Weiss DS, Newton K, McBride J, O’Rourke K, Roose-Girma M, Lee WP, Weinrauch Y, Monack DM, Dixit VM (2006) Cryopyrin activates the inflammasome in response to toxins and ATP. Nature 440:228–232

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Subramanian MN (2013) Plastics Additives and Testing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kitamura Y, Edwards DB, Sitha C, Williams JH, eds. (2016) The Political Economy of Schooling in Cambodia: Issues of Quality and Equity. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Mckenna C, Mcavinia C (2011) Difference and Discontinuity – Making Meaning Through Hypertexts. In: Digital Difference: Perspectives on Online Learning. Land, R & Bayne, S, editors. SensePublishers, Rotterdam pp. 45–60.

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 Restoration Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) US-China Deal Shows All That Effort to Tackle Climate Change Might Actually Be Worth It. IFLScience

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 (1993) Federal Research: Advanced Technology Program’s Indirect Cost Rates and Program Evaluation Status. 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

Singh KK (2015) An 8-PSK receiver using LNA & SRO: Design and mathematical analysis. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

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 (2014) The Justices Have Cellphones, Too. New York Times, June 25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Krug 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Krug 2006; Pak & Sheng 2003).

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

Two authors: (Pak & Sheng 2003)
Three or more authors: (Mariathasan et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Restoration Ecology
Abbreviation	Restor. Ecol.
ISSN (online)	1526-100X
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation