How to format your references using the Sustainability Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sustainability Science. 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

Kaiser J (2000) TOXICOLOGY: Panel Urges Further Study of Biotech Corn. Science 290:1867a

A journal article with 2 authors

Nodine MD, Bartel DP (2012) Maternal and paternal genomes contribute equally to the transcriptome of early plant embryos. Nature 482:94–97

A journal article with 3 authors

Lazzaro BP, Sceurman BK, Clark AG (2004) Genetic basis of natural variation in D. melanogaster antibacterial immunity. Science 303:1873–1876

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mavárez J, Salazar CA, Bermingham E, et al (2006) Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies. Nature 441:868–871

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Negre E (2015) Information and Recommender Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Steele RG (2005) Handbook of Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents, and Families. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Neurath O (2005) Serbia’s Successes in the Balkan War [1912]. In: Cohen RS (ed) Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 200–234

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 Sustainability Science.

Blog post

Taub B (2017) Science Reveals Secrets To Dexterity Of Elephants’ Trunks. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/science-reveals-secrets-dexterity-elephants-trunks/. 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 (1979) Problems Associated With Developing Large, Complex Data Processing Systems. 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

Krepstekies C (2010) News Media Representations of Women in the U.S. Military Post September 11, 2001. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Kolomatsky M (2017) International Rents Per Square Foot. New York Times RE2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kaiser 2000; Nodine and Bartel 2012).

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

Two authors: (Nodine and Bartel 2012)
Three or more authors: (Mavárez et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sustainability Science
Abbreviation	Sustain. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1862-4065
ISSN (online)	1862-4057
Scope	Ecology Global and Planetary Change Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation Geography, Planning and Development Health(social science) Sociology and Political Science