How to format your references using the Sustainable Environment Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sustainable Environment Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Kun H. Evaluation: Moving away from metrics. Nature 2015;520:S18-20.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hanahan D, Weinberg RA. Retrospective: Judah Folkman (1933-2008). Science 2008;319:1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zerbino DR, Paten B, Haussler D. Integrating genomes. Science 2012;336:179–82.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

McMorran BJ, Marshall VM, de Graaf C, Drysdale KE, Shabbar M, Smyth GK, et al. Platelets kill intraerythrocytic malarial parasites and mediate survival to infection. Science 2009;323:797–800.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Reay D. Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the OMAP-L138 eXperimenter. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Crabtree A. Doing Design Ethnography. London: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aleksandrowicz G, Ivrii A, Margalit O, Rasin D. Generating Modulo-2 Linear Invariants for Hardware Model Checking. In: Yahav E, editor. Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 10th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2014, Haifa, Israel, November 18-20, 2014. Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 54–67.

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 Sustainable Environment Research.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. SpaceX Launches And Lands A Rocket For The First Time In Five Months. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-launches-and-lands-rocket-for-first-time-in-five-months/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Special Education: Congressional Action Needed to Improve Chapter 1 Handicapped Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Brown ML. Examining leadership and the laminated glass ceiling: Gender and leadership traits. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 2010.

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

[1]

Walsh MW. Last Mile May Be Hardest in Former A.I.G. Chief’s Legal Journey. New York Times 2010:B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Sustainable Environment Research
Abbreviation	Sustain. Environ. Res.
ISSN (print)	2468-2039
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Environmental Engineering Pollution Waste Management and Disposal Water Science and Technology