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

Harra LK (2014) Astronomy. Looking closer at the Sun. Science 346:305–306

A journal article with 2 authors

Kind R, Yuan X (2010) Geophysics. Seismic images of the biggest crash on Earth. Science 329:1479–1480

A journal article with 3 authors

Dame RT, Noom MC, Wuite GJL (2006) Bacterial chromatin organization by H-NS protein unravelled using dual DNA manipulation. Nature 444:387–390

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Beck PG, Bedding TR, Mosser B, et al (2011) Kepler detected gravity-mode period spacings in a red giant star. Science 332:205

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lloret J, Shulman G, Love RM (2013) Condition and Health Indicators of Exploited Marine Fishes. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Mathura VS, Kangueane P (eds) (2009) Bioinformatics: A Concept-Based Introduction. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Rana AQ, Zumo LA, Sim V (2013) Neurodegenerative Conditions. In: Zumo LA, Sim V (eds) Neuroradiology in Clinical Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 51–59

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

Andrew E (2015) Why We Fell Out Of Love With Algorithms Inspired By Nature. In: IFLScience. 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 (2000) Federal Railroad Administration: Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program--Revisions. 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

Shipe RL (2015) Creating productive ambiguity: A visual research narrative. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Southall A, McKINLEY JC Jr (2016) Caregiver Who Abused 4-Year-Old Boy Faces 22-Year Sentence for Murder. New York Times A22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harra 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kind and Yuan 2010; Harra 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kind and Yuan 2010)
Three or more authors: (Beck et al. 2011)

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