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

Snow, A., 2003. Genetic engineering: unnatural selection. Nature 424, 619.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Loosdrecht, M.C.M., Brdjanovic, D., 2014. Water treatment. Anticipating the next century of wastewater treatment. Science 344, 1452–1453.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gambardella, A., Prezioso, M., Cavallini, M., 2014. Tunnel conductivity switching in a single nanoparticle-based nano floating gate memory. Sci. Rep. 4, 4196.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nakamura, A., Yao, M., Chimnaronk, S., Sakai, N., Tanaka, I., 2006. Ammonia channel couples glutaminase with transamidase reactions in GatCAB. Science 312, 1954–1958.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sizer, A., Balachandar, C., Biswas, N., Foon, R., Griffiths, A., Hodgett, S., Sahu, B., Underwood, M., 2016. Part 2 MRCOG: Single Best Answer Questions. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Liu, S., Duan, Z. (Eds.), 2016. Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method: 5th International Workshop, SOFL+MSVL 2015, Paris, France, November 6, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tournois, J., Alliez, P., Devillers, O., 2008. Interleaving Delaunay Refinement and Optimization for 2D Triangle Mesh Generation, in: Brewer, M.L., Marcum, D. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Meshing Roundtable. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 83–101.

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

Hale, T., 2016. This Is What An Ancient Egyptian Woman Looked LIke [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2005. Internet Protocol Version 6: Federal Agencies Need to Plan for Transition and Manage Security Risks (No. GAO-05-845T). 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

Hoffer, H., 2012. Aesthetics of destruction: Music and the worldview of Ikari Shinji in “Neon Genesis Evangelion” (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Saslow, L., 2006. For Roosevelt Schools, New Year and New Woes. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Snow, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Snow, 2003; van Loosdrecht and Brdjanovic, 2014).

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

Two authors: (van Loosdrecht and Brdjanovic, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Nakamura et al., 2006)

About the journal

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