How to format your references using the Environmental Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Technology. 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 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]

La Thangue NB. Transcription. Chromatin control--a place for E2F and Myc to meet. Science. 2002;296(5570):1034–1035.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Inchausti P, Halley J. Investigating long-term ecological variability using the Global Population Dynamics Database. Science. 2001;293(5530):655–657.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Anderson DG, Burdick JA, Langer R. Materials science. Smart biomaterials. Science. 2004;305(5692):1923–1924.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Baptiste KE, Naylor JM, Bailey J, et al. A function for guttural pouches in the horse. Nature. 2000;403(6768):382–383.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bakshi AB, Prasanna VK. Architecture-Independent Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Maynard AE. Learning in Cultural Context: Family, Peers, and School. Martini MI, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Reid C, Collins J, Singh M. Global Teachers’ Pathways to Australia. In: Collins J, Singh M, editors. Global Teachers, Australian Perspectives: Goodbye Mr Chips, Hello Ms Banerjee. Singapore: Springer; 2014. p. 65–83.

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 Environmental Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Populations Of World’s Rarest Big Cat Rebound [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/population-worlds-rarest-big-cat-has-doubled-2007/.

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. Guide for Evaluating Automated Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977. Report No.: 095106. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Robles S. Transient over-voltages generated by solar photovoltaic inverters [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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. Sinclair Said to Be Near Deal for Tribune Media. New York Times. 2017 May 7;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	Environmental Technology
Abbreviation	Environ. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0959-3330
ISSN (online)	1479-487X
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Waste Management and Disposal Water Science and Technology General Medicine