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]

Bers DM. Cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. Nature 2002;415:198–205.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Blagosklonny MV, Pardee AB. Conceptual biology: unearthing the gems. Nature 2002;416:373.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wagner PJ, Kosnik MA, Lidgard S. Abundance distributions imply elevated complexity of post-Paleozoic marine ecosystems. Science 2006;314:1289–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang J, Hupfeld CJ, Taylor SS, Olefsky JM, Tsien RY. Insulin disrupts beta-adrenergic signalling to protein kinase A in adipocytes. Nature 2005;437:569–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bonneau D, Fatu A, Souchet D. Thermo-Hydrodynamic Lubrication in Hydrodynamic Bearings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Siebentritt S, Rau U, editors. Wide-Gap Chalcopyrites. vol. 86. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Soffer P, Rolland C. Combining Intention-Oriented and State-Based Process Modeling. In: Delcambre L, Kop C, Mayr HC, Mylopoulos J, Pastor O, editors. Conceptual Modeling – ER 2005: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005, p. 47–62.

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. This Zip Line Will Take Astronauts To Safety If Something Goes Wrong With Their Rocket. IFLScience 2017.

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. Federal Student Aid: Recent Changes to Eligibility Requirements and Additional Efforts to Promote Awarness Could Increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant Participation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Eisenberg DA. Effectiveness of an eel curriculum on student achievement for the California earth science standard on ocean currents A comparative analysis. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

de la MERCED MJ. Investors Give $90 Million To a Flying Car Start-Up. New York Times 2017:B2.

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

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