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

Ma Z (2011) Materials science. An electronic second skin. Science 333:830–831

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerde E, Marder M (2001) Friction and fracture. Nature 413:285–288

A journal article with 3 authors

Branzei D, Vanoli F, Foiani M (2008) SUMOylation regulates Rad18-mediated template switch. Nature 456:915–920

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Huang B, Wang W, Bates M, Zhuang X (2008) Three-dimensional super-resolution imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy. Science 319:810–813

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, et al (2017) Molekularbiologie der Zelle. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Font-Llagunes JM (ed) (2016) Multibody Dynamics: Computational Methods and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Nuallaong W (2013) Burnout Symptoms and Cycles of Burnout: The Comparison with Psychiatric Disorders and Aspects of Approaches. In: Bährer-Kohler S (ed) Burnout for Experts: Prevention in the Context of Living and Working. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 47–72

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 (2016) Hawaii Is At Risk Of A Mega-Tsunami. 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 (1999) Environmental Protection Agency: Difficulties in Comparing Annual Budgets for Science and Technology. 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

Mannar NK (2017) Hri-Tech Consultants, LLC. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kishkovsky S (2011) A Festival in Red Square For the End of Summer. New York Times TR2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ma 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gerde and Marder 2001; Ma 2011).

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

Two authors: (Gerde and Marder 2001)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al. 2008)

About the journal

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

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