How to format your references using the Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Baughman RH (2003) Materials science. Muscles made from metal. Science 300:268–269

A journal article with 2 authors

Yartsev MM, Ulanovsky N (2013) Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats. Science 340:367–372

A journal article with 3 authors

Ringstad N, Abe N, Horvitz HR (2009) Ligand-gated chloride channels are receptors for biogenic amines in C. elegans. Science 325:96–100

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schuerch M, Spencer T, Temmerman S, et al (2018) Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise. Nature 561:231–234

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Greenspan D (2008) Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Stanislas M, Jimenez J, Marusic I (eds) (2011) Progress in Wall Turbulence: Understanding and Modeling: Proceedings of the WALLTURB International Workshop held in Lille, France, April 21-23, 2009. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

D’Amico S, De Matteis M, Rousseaux O, et al (2010) Ultra Wide Band in Medical Applications. In: Mukhopadhyay SC, Lay-Ekuakille A (eds) Advances in Biomedical Sensing, Measurements, Instrumentation and Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–60

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 Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) There Are Still Active Volcanoes On Venus. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/venus-still-has-volcanoes/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1972) Improved Use of Cargo Space on Ammunition Ships by BetterPlanning. 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

Megowan G (2012) A correlation study of emotional intelligence and behavioral style of bio-pharmaceutical industry District Sales Managers. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Schwirtz M, Rashbaum WK (2017) Rikers Deemed Too Dangerous For Inmates Outside New York. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baughman 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Baughman 2003; Yartsev and Ulanovsky 2013).

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

Two authors: (Yartsev and Ulanovsky 2013)
Three or more authors: (Schuerch et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology
Abbreviation	Rev. Environ. Sci. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1569-1705
ISSN (online)	1572-9826
Scope	Environmental Engineering Pollution Waste Management and Disposal Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology