How to format your references using the Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Eldridge JJ (2014) Astrophysics: Windy stars that go with a bang. Nature 509:431–432

A journal article with 2 authors

Sercombe TB, Schaffer GB (2003) Rapid manufacturing of aluminum components. Science 301:1225–1227

A journal article with 3 authors

Mayr C, Hemann MT, Bartel DP (2007) Disrupting the pairing between let-7 and Hmga2 enhances oncogenic transformation. Science 315:1576–1579

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Vasudevan RK, Okatan MB, Rajapaksa I, et al (2013) Higher order harmonic detection for exploring nonlinear interactions with nanoscale resolution. Sci Rep 3:2677

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kumar V (2006) Mobile Database Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sergienko IV (2005) Optimal Control of Distributed Systems with Conjugation Conditions. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Tasquier L, Venticinque S, Aversa R, Di Martino B (2013) Agent Based Application Tools for Cloud Provisioning and Management. In: Yousif M, Schubert L (eds) Cloud Computing: Third International Conference, CloudComp 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 24-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 32–42

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 Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Does Your Beard Really Contain More Poo Than A Toilet? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-beard-does-not-contain-more-poo-toilet/. 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 (1990) Staffing, Training, and Funding Issues for FAA’s Major Work Forces. 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

Pearson D (2014) A High-Level Fuzzy Logic Guidance System for an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) Tasked to Perform an Autonomous Launch and Recovery (ALR) of an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV). Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University

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

Crow K (2002) If You Can’t Stand the Name, Get Out of Hell’s Kitchen. New York Times 144

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eldridge 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Sercombe and Schaffer 2003; Eldridge 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sercombe and Schaffer 2003)
Three or more authors: (Vasudevan et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
Abbreviation	Clean Technol. Environ. Policy
ISSN (print)	1618-954X
ISSN (online)	1618-9558
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law