How to format your references using the Restoration Ecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Restoration Ecology. 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

de Waal FBM (2013) Behavior. Animal conformists. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340:437–438.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karkazis K, Jordan-Young R (2015) Science and society. Debating a testosterone ‘sex gap’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 348:858–860.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lacks DJ, Van Orman JA, Lesher CE (2012) Isotope fractionation in silicate melts. Nature 482:E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Comeau S, Edmunds PJ, Lantz CA, Carpenter RC (2014) Water flow modulates the response of coral reef communities to ocean acidification. Scientific reports 4:6681.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jäger W, Marzahn G (2010) Mauerwerk. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Solomon BD, Bailis R (eds.) (2014) Sustainable Development of Biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Shi L, Ólafsson S (2009) Mathematical Programming in the NP Framework. Pages 69–83. In: Ólafsson, S (ed.) Nested Partitions Method, Theory and Applications. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Springer US, Boston, MA

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 Restoration Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Quantum Mechanics Just Got ‘Spookier’. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/quantum-mechanics-just-got-spookier/ (accessed 30 October 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 (1983) Need To Improve Management of ACDA’s Automatic Data Processing and Operations Analysis Functions. 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

Witowski LL (2008) The relationship between instructional delivery methods and student learning preferences: What contributes to student satisfaction in an online learning environment? Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN

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

Dynarski S (2016) 왜 영재반에서는 흑인과 히스패닉 학생을 보기 힘들까? New York Times, June 8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Waal 2013).
This sentence cites two references (de Waal 2013; Karkazis & Jordan-Young 2015).

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

Two authors: (Karkazis & Jordan-Young 2015)
Three or more authors: (Comeau et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Restoration Ecology
Abbreviation	Restor. Ecol.
ISSN (online)	1526-100X
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation