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

Joiner S (2000) OPTICS: The Internet of Tomorrow. Science 290:1907–1908

A journal article with 2 authors

Martí MC, Webb AAR (2014) Plant science: leaf veins share the time of day. Nature 515:352–353

A journal article with 3 authors

Hulleman F, van Kerkwijk MH, Kulkarni SR (2000) An optical counterpart to the anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U0142+61. Nature 408:689–692

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Appeltant L, Van der Sande G, Danckaert J, Fischer I (2014) Constructing optimized binary masks for reservoir computing with delay systems. Sci Rep 4:3629

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin WC (2014) Wave Propagation in Drilling, Well Logging and Reservoir Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Saaksvuori A (2008) Product Lifecycle Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Krauthamer AV, Partovi S, Lyo J (2013) Neoplastic Disease of the Spine. In: Karimi S (ed) Atlas of Brain and Spine Oncology Imaging. Springer, New York, NY, pp 141–231

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) The World’s Most Sensitive Search For Dark Matter Is Up And Running. 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 (2001) Aviation Competition: Regional Jet Service Yet to Reach Many Small Communities. 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

Anderson D (2004) Chamber Music in Early Piano Study: A Guide to Repertoire. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Apuzzo M, Schmidt MS (2017) White House Tries Civility With Mueller. 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 (Joiner 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Joiner 2000; Martí and Webb 2014).

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

Two authors: (Martí and Webb 2014)
Three or more authors: (Appeltant et al. 2014)

About the journal

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