How to format your references using the Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/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

Grant PM (2000) Superconductivity. Currents without borders. Nature 407:139–141

A journal article with 2 authors

Bettencourt L, West G (2010) A unified theory of urban living. Nature 467:912–913

A journal article with 3 authors

Frumkin A, Shimron A, Rosenbaum J (2003) Radiometric dating of the Siloam Tunnel, Jerusalem. Nature 425:169–171

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Peleg S, Sananbenesi F, Zovoilis A, et al (2010) Altered histone acetylation is associated with age-dependent memory impairment in mice. Science 328:753–756

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ryan TP (2007) Modern Engineering Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pasterkamp G, Kleijn DPV de (eds) (2006) Cardiovascular Research: New Technologies, Methods, and Applications. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Sykes AV, Koueta N, Rosas C (2014) Historical Review of Cephalopods Culture. In: Iglesias J, Fuentes L, Villanueva R (eds) Cephalopod Culture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 59–75

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 Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) 1995 VHS Footage Captures Shocking Orca Incident At SeaWorld. In: IFLScience. 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 (1973) Propriety of the City Edges Grant Awarded to the Suburban Action Institute. 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

Mustico JP (2010) Perception and preference comparison of managers’ behaviors on sales and non -sales employees: A case study. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Vecsey G (2010) A Script, or Woods’s Road to Recovery? New York Times B18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grant 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Grant 2000; Bettencourt and West 2010).

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

Two authors: (Bettencourt and West 2010)
Three or more authors: (Peleg et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology
Abbreviation	Rev. Environ. Sci. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1569-1705
ISSN (online)	1572-9826
Scope	Environmental Engineering Pollution Waste Management and Disposal Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology