How to format your references using the Current Pollution Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Pollution Reports. 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

1. Luo Z-X. Evolution: Tooth structure re-engineered. Nature. 2014;512:36–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hossfeld U, Olsson L. Portraits of science. From the modern synthesis to Lysenkoism, and back? Science. 2002;297:55–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Villegas P, Moretti P, Muñoz MA. Frustrated hierarchical synchronization and emergent complexity in the human connectome network. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5990.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Brierley CM, Fedorov AV, Liu Z, Herbert TD, Lawrence KT, Lariviere JP. Greatly expanded tropical warm pool and weakened Hadley circulation in the early Pliocene. Science. 2009;323:1714–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Blanchet G, Charbit M. Digital Signal and Image Processing Using Matlab®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Azaïez M, El Fekih H, Hesthaven JS, editors. Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations - ICOSAHOM 2012: Selected papers from the ICOSAHOM conference, June 25-29, 2012, Gammarth, Tunisia. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Amálio N, Kelsen P, Ma Q, Glodt C. Using VCL as an Aspect-Oriented Approach to Requirements Modelling. In: Katz S, Mezini M, Kienzle J, editors. Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development VII: A Common Case Study for Aspect-Oriented Modeling. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 151–99.

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 Current Pollution Reports.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Patients Diagnosed With Drug-Resistant Malaria In The UK For The First Time [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/patients-diagnosed-with-drugresistant-malaria-in-the-uk-for-the-first-time/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Defaulted Loans Under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Nov. Report No.: B-117604(7).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Biller JT. Cyber-Terrorism: Finding a Common Starting Point [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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. Kenigsberg B. After 2008, Picking On the Little Guy. New York Times. 2017 May 18;C6.

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	Current Pollution Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Pollut. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2198-6592
Scope