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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Boreal 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	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

Greene B. 2010. Q&A: Brian Greene on music and string theory. Nature 465: 426.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tonkin L.A. & Bass B.L. 2003. Mutations in RNAi rescue aberrant chemotaxis of ADAR mutants. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302: 1725.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hellberg M.E., Balch D.P. & Roy K. 2001. Climate-driven range expansion and morphological evolution in a marine gastropod. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292: 1707–1710.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Ha S.C., Lowenhaupt K., Rich A., Kim Y.-G. & Kim K.K. 2005. Crystal structure of a junction between B-DNA and Z-DNA reveals two extruded bases. Nature 437: 1183–1186.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell L.C.R., Hodgetts C.T.J., Mahoney C.P.F. & Castle N. 2010. Disaster Rules. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Bombardieri E., Gianni L. & Bonadonna G. (eds.). 2008. Breast Cancer: Nuclear Medicine in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Options. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sarcar P., Basu S. & Ghosh A. 2015. Broadband Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antennas for K and EHF Bands. In: Maharatna K., Dalapati G.K., Banerjee P.K., Mallick A.K. & Mukherjee M. (eds.), Computational Advancement in Communication Circuits and Systems: Proceedings of ICCACCS 2014, Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 29–37.

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 Boreal Environment Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Spare Your Health, Budget, And The Planet: Ditch The Palaeodiet. IFLScience.

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. 2002. Internet Management: Limited Progress on Privatization Project Makes Outcome Uncertain. 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

Arzaga C.B. 2012. Homeless shelter program for the elderly in Los Angeles, California: A grant writing project.

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

MERCED M.J. de la & Drape J. 2017. Co-Founder of Alibaba Is Said to Buy a 49 Percent Stake in the Nets. New York Times: D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greene 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Tonkin and Bass 2003; Greene 2010).

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

Two authors: (Tonkin and Bass 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ha et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Boreal Environment Research
ISSN (print)	1239-6095
ISSN (online)	1797-2469
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