How to format your references using the Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 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

Check E (2003) Journals tighten up on biosecurity. Nature 421:774

A journal article with 2 authors

Kilpivaara O, Aaltonen LA (2013) Diagnostic cancer genome sequencing and the contribution of germline variants. Science 339:1559–1562

A journal article with 3 authors

Letinic K, Zoncu R, Rakic P (2002) Origin of GABAergic neurons in the human neocortex. Nature 417:645–649

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ji Q, Luo Z-X, Zhang X, et al (2009) Evolutionary development of the middle ear in Mesozoic therian mammals. Science 326:278–281

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rankin J (2008) Effects of Antenatal Exercise on Psychological Well-Being, Pregnancy and Birth Outcome. Whurr Publishers Ltd, Philadelphia, PA, USA

An edited book

Mansouri F (ed) (2015) Cultural, Religious and Political Contestations: The Multicultural Challenge. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Maderich V, Brovchenko I, Terletska K, Hutter K (2012) Numerical Simulations of the Nonhydrostatic Transformation of Basin-Scale Internal Gravity Waves and Wave-Enhanced Meromixis in Lakes. In: Hutter K (ed) Nonlinear Internal Waves in Lakes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 193–276

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 of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Hubble’s Deep Field Images Of The Early Universe Are Postcards From Billions Of Years Ago. 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 (1981) Review of Contractors’ Pension and Other Benefits for Employees Working at NASA’s Scientific and Technical Information Facility. 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

Kraka EK (2012) Assessment of herbicides for control of non-native species: Italian ryegrass (Lolium perenne spp. multiflorum ), tropical spiderwort (Commelina benghalensis), and tropical soda apple (Solanum viarum). Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Greenhouse L (2007) IN REVERSAL OF COURSE, JUSTICES, 5-4, BACK BAN ON ABORTION METHOD. 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 (Check 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2003; Kilpivaara and Aaltonen 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kilpivaara and Aaltonen 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ji et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
ISSN (print)	0179-5953
Scope