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

Mandavilli A (2005) India. Nature 436:477

A journal article with 2 authors

Feinberg EH, Meister M (2015) Orientation columns in the mouse superior colliculus. Nature 519:229–232

A journal article with 3 authors

Urban FE, Cole JE, Overpeck JT (2000) Influence of mean climate change on climate variability from a 155-year tropical Pacific coral record. Nature 407:989–993

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Koebel CM, Vermi W, Swann JB, et al (2007) Adaptive immunity maintains occult cancer in an equilibrium state. Nature 450:903–907

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choi N-E, Han JH (2015) How Flavor Works. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ramnath S, Dathan B (eds) (2011) Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Babenyshev S, Rybakov V (2009) Describing Evolutions of Multi-Agent Systems. In: Velásquez JD, Ríos SA, Howlett RJ, Jain LC (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 13th International Conference, KES 2009, Santiago, Chile, September 28-30, 2009, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 38–45

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

Fang J (2014) Earliest Evidence of Parental Care Found in Beetle Fossils. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/earliest-evidence-parental-care-found-beetle-fossils/. 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 (1998) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: FAA Must Act Quickly to Prevent Systems Failures. 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

Jackson ME (2010) Where are the parents: The parent’s perspective of parental involvement in education. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Kanter J (2016) As Hopes for European Unity Dim, New E.U. Headquarters Are Glowing. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mandavilli 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mandavilli 2005; Feinberg and Meister 2015).

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

Two authors: (Feinberg and Meister 2015)
Three or more authors: (Koebel et al. 2007)

About the journal

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