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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Bobrow M (2015) Funders must encourage scientists to share. Nature 522:129
A journal article with 2 authors
Chatterjee S, Grosshans H (2009) Active turnover modulates mature microRNA activity in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 461:546–549
A journal article with 3 authors
Kokoouline V, Greene CH, Esry BD (2001) Mechanism for the destruction of H+3 ions by electron impact. Nature 412:891–894
A journal article with 6 or more authors
Domínguez-Villar D, Carrasco RM, Pedraza J, Cheng H, Edwards RL, Willenbring JK (2013) Early maximum extent of paleoglaciers from Mediterranean mountains during the last glaciation. Scientific reports 3:2034

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
van Vreeswijk M, Broersen J, Schurink G (2014) Mindfulness and Schema Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK
An edited book
Scher CS, ed. (2014) Anesthesia for Trauma: New Evidence and New Challenges. Springer, New York, NY
A chapter in an edited book
Rivenbark AG, Coleman WB (2009) The Role of Mutation and Epimutation in the Development of Human Disease. In: Basic Concepts of Molecular Pathology. Allen, TC & Cagle, PT, editors. Molecular Pathology Library Springer US, Boston, MA pp. 41–54.

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
Andrews R (2015) Archeologists Find Ancient Human Engravings From The End Of The Ice Age. 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 (1998) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard--Model Year 2000. 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
Huang Y (2017) Optimal control of heat engines in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD

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
St. John Kelly E (1997) With Historic Brownstone Gone, Is Development at Hand? New York Times, November 9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bobrow 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bobrow 2015; Chatterjee & Grosshans 2009).

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

  • Two authors: (Chatterjee & Grosshans 2009)
  • Three or more authors: (Domínguez-Villar et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleRestoration Ecology
AbbreviationRestor. Ecol.
ISSN (online)1526-100X
ScopeEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Ecology
Nature and Landscape Conservation

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