How to format your references using the AIMS Environmental Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS Environmental Science. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

Rashed R (2002) Portraits of science. A polymath in the 10th century. Science 297: 773.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brennan PA, Zufall F (2006) Pheromonal communication in vertebrates. Nature 444: 308–315.

A journal article with 3 authors

Altizer S, Bartel R, Han BA (2011) Animal migration and infectious disease risk. Science 331: 296–302.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zicha D, Dobbie IM, Holt MR, et al. (2003) Rapid actin transport during cell protrusion. Science 300: 142–145.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooper JD (2016) Soil Water Measurement, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Escoffre J-M, Bouakaz A (Eds.) (2016) Therapeutic Ultrasound, Cham, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Quay J, Seaman J (2013) The Environmental Crisis and a Desire for Adventure, In: Quay J, Seaman J (Eds.), John Dewey and Education Outdoors: Making Sense of the ‘Educational Situation’ through more than a Century of Progressive Reforms, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 45–59.

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 AIMS Environmental Science.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) IFLScience, NASA’s ‘RoboGloves’ Could Double The Strength Of Your Hand, 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nasas-robogloves-could-double-the-strength-of-your-hand/.

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 (1994) Federal Research: Additional Funds for Terminating the Super Collider Are Not Justified, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Merritt KM (2017) Predicting the Success of Running Back Prospects in the National Football League.

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

Kenigsberg B (2016) Review: ‘My Blind Brother,’ Who Is Also a Major Pain. New York Times C6.

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	AIMS Environmental Science
ISSN (online)	2372-0352
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