How to format your references using the Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 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

Heilbron JL (2013) History: The path to the quantum atom. Nature 498:27–30

A journal article with 2 authors

Csabai I, Szathmáry E (2011) Comment on “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.” Science 332:1149; author reply 1149

A journal article with 3 authors

Serganov A, Huang L, Patel DJ (2009) Coenzyme recognition and gene regulation by a flavin mononucleotide riboswitch. Nature 458:233–237

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chambers SA, Droubay T, Jennison DR, Mattsson TR (2002) Laminar growth of ultrathin metal films on metal oxides: Co on hydroxylated alpha-Al2O3(0001). Science 297:827–831

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaughan D, Robinson N, Lucas N, Arulkumaran S (2010) Handbook of Obstetric High Dependency Care. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Bielza C, Salmerón A, Alonso-Betanzos A, et al (eds) (2013) Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 15th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2013, Madrid, Spain, September 17-20, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Balmer JE, Staub F, Jia F (2014) Soft-X-Ray Lasing down to 6.85 nm in Ni-Like Samarium. In: Sebban S, Gautier J, Ros D, Zeitoun P (eds) X-Ray Lasers 2012: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers, 11–15 June 2012, Paris, France. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 29–34

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 of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) What Do Dogs Dream About? 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 (1977) Impact of Illegal Aliens on Public Assistance Programs: Too Little Is Known. 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

Lopez C (2015) A community-based outreach program for Latinos in Los Angeles County supporting mental health awareness and treatment: 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

Rothenberg B (2016) Remodeling the U.S. Fed Cup Team. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heilbron 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Csabai and Szathmáry 2011; Heilbron 2013).

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

Two authors: (Csabai and Szathmáry 2011)
Three or more authors: (Chambers et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
ISSN (print)	0179-5953
Scope