How to format your references using the Environmental Technology Reviews citation style

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

Bretag AH. Stem cell treatment of dystrophic dogs. Nature. 2007;450(7173):E23; discussion E23-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vakil A, Engheta N. Transformation optics using graphene. Science. 2011;332(6035):1291–1294.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Karner MB, DeLong EF, Karl DM. Archaeal dominance in the mesopelagic zone of the Pacific Ocean. Nature. 2001;409(6819):507–510.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Mitchell DG, Perry ME, Hamilton DC, et al. Dust grains fall from Saturn’s D-ring into its equatorial upper atmosphere. Science. 2018;362(6410).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zanotto ED. Crystals in Glass. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Schwartz RA, Byrne JA, Colaninno A, editors. Electronic vs. Floor Based Trading. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bloss CS, Bakken TE, Joyner AH, et al. Leveraging High-Dimensional Neuroimaging Data in Genetic Studies of Neuropsychiatric Disease. In: Ritsner MS, editor. The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes and Genes: Neuropsychological Endophenotypes and Biomarkers. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 87–102.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Scientists Are Running For Congress Because “The Future Hangs In The Balance” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-are-running-for-congress-because-the-future-hangs-in-the-balance/.

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. Implementation of the Technology Transfer Act: A Preliminary Assessment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990. Report No.: T-PEMD-90-4. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mills AD. Strategic school solutions: A capacity building framework for leaders accelerating 21st century teaching and learning [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2016.

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]

Vecsey G. 50 Years Later, Maris’s 61-Homer Season Looks Even Better. New York Times. 2011 Aug 21;SP2.

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Environ. Technol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2162-2515
ISSN (online)	2162-2523
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