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]

Smaglik P. Central stations. Nature 2005;433:439.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Aldy JE, Stavins RN. Climate change. Climate negotiators create an opportunity for scholars. Science 2012;337:1043–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mayle FE, Burbridge R, Killeen TJ. Millennial-scale dynamics of southern Amazonian rain forests. Science 2000;290:2291–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Sun P, Zheng F, Zhu M, Wang K, Zhong M, Wu D, et al. Realizing synchronous energy harvesting and ion separation with graphene oxide membranes. Sci Rep 2014;4:5528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Brandimarte P. Handbook in Monte Carlo Simulation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Parsyan A, editor. Translation and Its Regulation in Cancer Biology and Medicine. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pereira G, Mikkelsen LP, McGugan M. Fibre Bragg Grating Sensor Signal Post-processing Algorithm: Crack Growth Monitoring in Fibre Reinforced Plastic Structures. In: Ribeiro P, Raposo M, editors. Photoptics 2015: Revised Selected Papers, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 63–80.

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]

Evans K. NASA Reveals Very Cool Concept For Ice Homes On Mars. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-reveals-very-cool-concept-for-ice-homes-on-mars/ (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. NASA Travel: Passenger Aircraft Services Annually Cost Taxpayers Millions More Than Commercial Airlines. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Delaney DC. Undergraduate social work students’ perceptions regarding hospice and end-of-life care. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Pilon M. Game Time Is Adjusted; Jewish School Will Play. New York Times 2012:B9.

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