How to format your references using the International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Environmental Science and 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	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

Hwang WC (2009) Journal club. A structural biologist has great expectations for llamas’ small antibodies. Nature 459:303

A journal article with 2 authors

Aβmann M, Bayer M (2013) Compressive adaptive computational ghost imaging. Sci Rep 3:1545

A journal article with 3 authors

Brengues M, Teixeira D, Parker R (2005) Movement of eukaryotic mRNAs between polysomes and cytoplasmic processing bodies. Science 310:486–489

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Asadi M, Sayahpour B, Abbasi P, et al (2018) A lithium-oxygen battery with a long cycle life in an air-like atmosphere. Nature 555:502–506

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sheriff RE, Hu YF (2001) Mobile Satellite Communication Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Dannen C (2011) Beginning iOS Apps with Facebook and Twitter APIs: For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Jaramillo F, Noboa F (2015) Impact of Servant Leadership on Ethical Climate, Supervisor Conflict, and Organizational Outcomes. In: Robinson L Jr (ed) Marketing Dynamism & Sustainability: Things Change, Things Stay the Same…: Proceedings of the 2012 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 5–5

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 International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Mount Etna’s Rivers Of Lava Are Incredibly Hypnotic. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mount-etnas-rivers-lava-incredibly-hypnotic/. 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 (2006) Information Security: Coordination of Federal Cyber Security Research and Development. 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

Hernandez L (2009) A culturally sensitive mentorship program for foster youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hollander S (1999) HARVARD 37, FORDHAM 30. New York Times 83

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hwang 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hwang 2009; Aβmann and Bayer 2013).

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

Two authors: (Aβmann and Bayer 2013)
Three or more authors: (Asadi et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. (Tehran)
ISSN (print)	1735-1472
ISSN (online)	1735-2630
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering