How to format your references using the Environment International citation style

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

Nicholls, H., 2015. Conservation biology: Wild at heart. Nature 528, 474–475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mochida, S., Hunt, T., 2007. Calcineurin is required to release Xenopus egg extracts from meiotic M phase. Nature 449, 336–340.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Dyck, D., Jinschek, J.R., Chen, F.-R., 2012. “Big Bang” tomography as a new route to atomic-resolution electron tomography. Nature 486, 243–246.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lian, J., Yu, L., Liang, J.-Q., Chen, G., Jia, S., 2013. Orbit-induced spin squeezing in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate. Sci. Rep. 3, 3166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bucci, D., 2017. Analog Electronics for Measuring Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Allahbadia, G.N., Nitzschke, M. (Eds.), 2015. Minimal Stimulation and Natural Cycle In Vitro Fertilization, 1st ed. 2015. ed. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Benesty, J., Chen, J., Huang, Y., Cohen, I., 2009. Pearson Correlation Coefficient, in: Huang, Y., Chen, J., Benesty, J. (Eds.), Noise Reduction in Speech Processing, Springer Topics in Signal Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 1–4.

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 Environment International.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Poor Semen Quality May Be A Warning Sign Of Other Health Issues [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/poor-semen-quality-may-be-warning-sign-other-health-issues/ (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, 1977. Capitalization and Use of the Automatic Data Processing Fund That Is Administered by the General Services Administration (No. B-115369). 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

Kino, M.Y., 2015. My Concierge MD, Inc. a business plan (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Cooper, M., Walsh, M.W., 2010. In Town That Stopped Checks, A Warning on Public Pensions. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nicholls, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Mochida and Hunt, 2007; Nicholls, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Mochida and Hunt, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Lian et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environment International
Abbreviation	Environ. Int.
ISSN (print)	0160-4120
Scope	General Environmental Science