How to format your references using the Environmental Technology Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Technology Reviews. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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]
Trivedi B. Learning from the elite. Nature. 2010;466:S4.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Eddingsaas NC, Suslick KS. Mechanoluminescence: light from sonication of crystal slurries. Nature. 2006;444:163.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Bejan A, Ziaei S, Lorente S. Evolution: why all plumes and jets evolve to round cross sections. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4730.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
Liu S, Li P, Dybkov O, et al. Binding of the human Prp31 Nop domain to a composite RNA-protein platform in U4 snRNP. Science. 2007;316:115–120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Walter RJ. Practical Compliance with the EPA Risk Management Program. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1998.
An edited book
[1]
Saka M, editor. Metallic Micro and Nano Materials: Fabrication with Atomic Diffusion. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Godart B, de Rooij M, Wood JGM. Severity Investigation. In: Godart B, de Rooij M, Wood JGM, editors. Guide to Diagnosis and Appraisal of AAR Damage to Concrete in Structures: Part 1 Diagnosis (AAR 61). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 65–78.

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 Environmental Technology Reviews.

Blog post
[1]
Davis J. Farming Causes More Air Pollution Than All Other Human Sources Combined [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/farming-causes-more-air-pollution-all-other-human-sources-combined/.

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. ADP Acquisitions: Immigration and Naturalization Service Should Terminate Its Contract and Recompete. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986. Report No.: IMTEC-86-5. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Kim EH. A personal narrative of a Korean immigrant to the United States: A quest for finding a niche [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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]
Alcindor Y. Trump Rallies White Crowd in Wisconsin for the Police. New York Times. 2016 Aug 17;A9.

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 titleEnvironmental Technology Reviews
AbbreviationEnviron. Technol. Rev.
ISSN (print)2162-2515
ISSN (online)2162-2523
Scope

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