How to format your references using the Ecopsychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ecopsychology (ECO). 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

Mazin II. Superconductivity Gets an Iron Boost. Nature 2010;464(7286):183–186.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang Y and Lisberger SG. Purkinje-Cell Plasticity and Cerebellar Motor Learning Are Graded by Complex-Spike Duration. Nature 2014;510(7506):529–532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peters AJ, Chen SX and Komiyama T. Emergence of Reproducible Spatiotemporal Activity during Motor Learning. Nature 2014;510(7504):263–267.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Russell JC, Towns DR, Anderson SH, et al. Intercepting the First Rat Ashore. Nature 2005;437(7062):1107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller MA. Internet Technologies Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2005.

An edited book

Wickramasinghe N, Al-Hakim L, Gonzalez C, et al., (eds). Lean Thinking for Healthcare. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer: New York, NY; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Andersen ML and Baumans V. Euthanasia. In: Rodent Model as Tools in Ethical Biomedical Research. (Andersen ML and Tufik S. eds) Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2016; pp. 39–49.

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 Ecopsychology.

Blog post

Andrews R. This Human Has Been “Designed” To Survive In Car Crashes. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-human-has-been-designed-to-survive-in-car-crashes/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Commercial Motor Vehicles: Effectiveness of Actions Being Taken to Improve Motor Carrier Safety Is Unknown. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Qin R. Mid -Ocean Ridge Morphology and Tectonics: Insights from Numerical Modeling of Faults and Dikes. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University: New York, NY; 2008.

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

Dominus I by S. ‘You Have to Keep Putting Yourself Out There.’ New York Times 2014;MM14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mazin, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Mazin, 2010; Yang and Lisberger, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yang and Lisberger, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Russell et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ecopsychology
ISSN (online)	1942-9347
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