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

Roll-Mecak A (2013) Botany. Shining light at microtubule crossroads. Science (New York, N.Y.) 342:1180–1181

A journal article with 2 authors

Touma JR, Sridhar S (2015) The disruption of multiplanet systems through resonance with a binary orbit. Nature 524:439–441

A journal article with 3 authors

Vannucchi P, Remitti F, Bettelli G (2008) Geological record of fluid flow and seismogenesis along an erosive subducting plate boundary. Nature 451:699–703

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Zhao Y, Christensen SK, Fankhauser C, Cashman JR, Cohen JD, Weigel D, Chory J (2001) A role for flavin monooxygenase-like enzymes in auxin biosynthesis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 291:306–309

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigo M (2014) Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 2. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Janmey P, Fletcher D, Gerecht S, Levine R, Mallick P, McCarty O, Munn L, Reinhart-King C, eds. (2016) Physical Sciences and Engineering Advances in Life Sciences and Oncology: A WTEC Global Assessment. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Black DC, Donovan J, Bunton B, Keist A (2010) A Notion of Time. In: SystemC: From the Ground Up. Donovan, J, Bunton, B, & Keist, A, editors. Springer US, Boston, MA pp. 59–64.

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 Restoration Ecology.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Researchers Attempt To Develop A Vaccine For Alzheimer’s Disease. 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 (2008) Environmental Satellites: Polar-orbiting Satellite Acquisition Faces Delays; Decisions Needed on Whether and How to Ensure Climate Data Continuity. 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

Lama N (2017) Optimized Veterinary Thermographic Image Classification using Support Vector Machines and Noise Mitigation. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL

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

Saslow L (2007) Roosevelt Seeking Schools Superintendent. New York Times, April 29

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roll-Mecak 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Roll-Mecak 2013; Touma & Sridhar 2015).

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

Two authors: (Touma & Sridhar 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al. 2001)

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