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

Walsworth RL (2004) Applied physics. The maser at 50. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306:236–237

A journal article with 2 authors

MacLean EL, Hare B (2015) Evolution. Dogs hijack the human bonding pathway. Science (New York, N.Y.) 348:280–281

A journal article with 3 authors

Bryk R, Griffin P, Nathan C (2000) Peroxynitrite reductase activity of bacterial peroxiredoxins. Nature 407:211–215

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Whittington AT, Vugrek O, Wei KJ, Hasenbein NG, Sugimoto K, Rashbrooke MC, Wasteneys GO (2001) MOR1 is essential for organizing cortical microtubules in plants. Nature 411:610–613

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paul S (2010) Digital Video Distribution in Broadband, Television, Mobile and Converged Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Mueller MS, Chapman BM, Supinski BR de, Malony AD, Voss M, eds. (2008) OpenMP Shared Memory Parallel Programming: International Workshops, IWOMP 2005 and IWOMP 2006, Eugene, OR, USA, June 1-4, 2005, Reims, France, June 12-15, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Papastefanatos G (2014) Challenges and Opportunities in the Evolving Data Web. In: Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2013 Workshops, LSAWM, MoBiD, RIGiM, SeCoGIS, WISM, DaSeM, SCME, and PhD Symposium, Hong Kong, China, November 11-13, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Parsons, J & Chiu, D, editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer International Publishing, Cham pp. 23–28.

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

Luntz S (2014) Antarctic Ice Melt Could Be Worse Than We Realized. 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 (1999) Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Dahdah S (2008) Modeling an infrastructure safety rating for vulnerable road users in developing countries. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC

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

Novick SM (2015) Turkey and Trimmings, Without Dishes to Do. New York Times, November 22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walsworth 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Walsworth 2004; MacLean & Hare 2015).

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

Two authors: (MacLean & Hare 2015)
Three or more authors: (Whittington 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

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