How to format your references using the Ecological Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ecological Engineering. 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 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

Wykes, T., 2010. Cognitive remediation therapy needs funding. Nature 468, 165–166.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anastasiadou, E., Slack, F.J., 2014. Cancer. Malicious exosomes. Science 346, 1459–1460.

A journal article with 3 authors

Platt, T., Fuentes-Yaco, C., Frank, K.T., 2003. Marine ecology: Spring algal bloom and larval fish survival. Nature 423, 398–399.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Caggiano, V., Fogassi, L., Rizzolatti, G., Thier, P., Casile, A., 2009. Mirror neurons differentially encode the peripersonal and extrapersonal space of monkeys. Science 324, 403–406.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vogel, W., Kalb, H., 2010. Large-Scale Solar Thermal Power. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Tuschmann, W., 2015. Moduli Spaces of Riemannian Metrics, Oberwolfach Seminars. Springer, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Lyubina, J., 2016. Magnetocaloric Materials, in: Zhukov, A. (Ed.), Novel Functional Magnetic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications, Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 115–186.

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 Ecological Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. The Theory Of Parallel Universes Is Not Just Maths – It Is Science That Can Be Tested [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/theory-parallel-universes-not-just-maths-it-science-can-be-tested/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2004. Prekindergarten: Four Selected States Expanded Access by Relying on Schools and Existing Providers of Early Education and Care to Provide Services (No. GAO-04-852). 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

Florio, M.L., 2012. Assessing the impacts of knowing natural team player styles on team satisfaction and cohesion (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Qiu, L., 2017. On What He Really Said, and Whom He Is Blaming for It. New York Times A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wykes, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Anastasiadou and Slack, 2014; Wykes, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Anastasiadou and Slack, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Caggiano et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ecological Engineering
Abbreviation	Ecol. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0925-8574
Scope	Environmental Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation