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

Bray D (2003) Genomics. Molecular prodigality. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299:1189–1190

A journal article with 2 authors

Bruun E, Givoni M (2015) Sustainable mobility: Six research routes to steer transport policy. Nature 523:29–31

A journal article with 3 authors

Downs JA, Lowndes NF, Jackson SP (2000) A role for Saccharomyces cerevisiae histone H2A in DNA repair. Nature 408:1001–1004

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Muotri AR, Chu VT, Marchetto MCN, Deng W, Moran JV, Gage FH (2005) Somatic mosaicism in neuronal precursor cells mediated by L1 retrotransposition. Nature 435:903–910

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garde F, Aelenei D, Aelenei L, Scognamiglio A, Ayoub J (2017) Solution Sets for Net-Zero Energy Buildings. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Jackson TL, ed. (2012) Modeling Tumor Vasculature: Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Level Aspects and Implications. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Déjean H (2012) Using Page Breaks for Book Structuring. In: Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure: 10th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, December 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Geva, S, Kamps, J, & Schenkel, R, editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg pp. 57–67.

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 (2015) Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Could Be Suitable For Primitive Life. 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 (2005) Highway Safety: Further Opportunities Exist to Improve Data on Crashes Involving Commercial Motor Vehicles. 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

Loretz N (2009) Human trafficking: Identification, education, and awareness: A grant proposal. 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

Williams J (2017) The Russian Revolution, Without Fiction. New York Times, May 7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bray 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bray 2003; Bruun & Givoni 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bruun & Givoni 2015)
Three or more authors: (Muotri et al. 2005)

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