How to format your references using the Sustainable Environment Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sustainable Environment Research. 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

[1]

Desplan C. Time to pick the fly’s brain. Nature 2007;450:173.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Trenberth KE, Fasullo JT. Climate change. Tracking Earth’s energy. Science 2010;328:316–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tilman D, Reich PB, Knops JMH. Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment. Nature 2006;441:629–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Jovanovic K, Gonsalves D, Da Costa Dias B, Moodley K, Reusch U, Knackmuss S, et al. Anti-LRP/LR specific antibodies and shRNAs impede amyloid beta shedding in Alzheimer’s disease. Sci Rep 2013;3:2699.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pardoux É. Markov Processes and Applications: Algorithms, Networks, Genome and Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Wilbanks TJ, Fernandez S, editors. Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban Systems, and Vulnerabilities. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Urbanek A. Transaction Costs in the IT Project Implementation Illustrated with the Example of Silesian Card of Public Services. In: Mikulski J, editor. Challenge of Transport Telematics: 16th International Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, TST 2016, Katowice-Ustroń, Poland, March 16–19, 2016, Selected Papers, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 35–46.

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 Sustainable Environment Research.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. What Was That Huge Flash Over Russia? IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-was-weird-flash-over-russia/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Critical Infrastructure Protection: “ILOVEYOU” Computer Virus Highlights Need for Improved Alert and Coordination Capabilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Obidos C. Attitudes toward and knowledge of advance directives: A quantitative study. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

Ruiz RR, Schmidt MS. Sessions Steers Clear of Trump’s ‘Joke’ on the Use of Force by the Police. New York Times 2017:A10.

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	Sustainable Environment Research
Abbreviation	Sustain. Environ. Res.
ISSN (print)	2468-2039
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Environmental Engineering Pollution Waste Management and Disposal Water Science and Technology