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

Powell K (2012) Molecular oncology: The positive in the negative. Nature 485:S52-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Wheeler MM, Robinson GE (2014) Diet-dependent gene expression in honey bees: honey vs. sucrose or high fructose corn syrup. Sci Rep 4:5726

A journal article with 3 authors

Baughman RH, Zakhidov AA, de Heer WA (2002) Carbon nanotubes--the route toward applications. Science 297:787–792

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hwang G-W, Murai Y, Takahashi T, Naganuma A (2014) The protein transportation pathway from Golgi to vacuoles via endosomes plays a role in enhancement of methylmercury toxicity. Sci Rep 4:5888

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cayoun BA (2015) Mindfulness-integrated CBT for Well-being and Personal Growth. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Benatallah B, Casati F, Kappel G, Rossi G (eds) (2010) Web Engineering: 10th International Conference, ICWE 2010, Vienna Austria, July 5-9, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Juarrero A (2009) Top-Down Causation and Autonomy in Complex Systems. In: Murphy N, Ellis GFR, O’Connor T (eds) Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 83–102

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

Andrew E (2015) Investigators Announce The Cause Of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crash. 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 (1980) The Office of Science and Technology Policy: Adaptation to a President’s Operating Style May Conflict With Congressionally Mandated Assignments. 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

Pope C (2010) Words in the Garden. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

St. John Kelly E (1993) PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times 1315

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Powell 2012; Wheeler and Robinson 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wheeler and Robinson 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hwang et al. 2014)

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

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