How to cite

Information on how to cite published articles and articles under review on the preprint server, as well as publsihed peer reviewer reports.

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To cite a preprint article

Please reference any submitted preprint article as posted online to the UCL Open: Environment preprint server not as a peer-reviewed paper but under submission at UCL Open: Environment. You will find useful information on citing preprint content online by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) here.

A formal citation can be written as follows, for example:

Author, A (2019). Title of the preprint article. [Preprint]. Submitted to: UCL Open: Environment. [accessed: date] DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/…

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To cite a reviewer report

All reviews performed in UCL Open: Environment are published with a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY (4.0) licence and also receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) from CrossRef (similar to a formal research publication) meaning that reviews are citable. To cite a review, the formal citation should report the current status of the article the review was performed to.

A formal citation for a completed review performed on a preprint article in UCL Open: Environment can be written as follows:

Reviewer, A (2019). Review of ‘Title of the preprint article’. [Preprint]. Submitted to: UCL Open: Environment. [accessed: date] DOI [of review]: https://doi.org/10.14324/…

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To cite a published article

A formal citation for a published article  in UCL Open: Environment (i.e. an article publsihed in the journal after open peer review) can be written as follows, for example:

Author, A (2019). Title of the article. UCL Open: Environment, Vol 1(Issue 1): [article number] 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/…