How to format your references using the Environmental and Ecological Statistics citation style

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

Jones WD (2002) Synthetic chemistry. The key to successful organic synthesis is. Science 295:289–290

A journal article with 2 authors

Maloy KJ, Powrie F (2011) Intestinal homeostasis and its breakdown in inflammatory bowel disease. Nature 474:298–306

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee H, Lee BP, Messersmith PB (2007) A reversible wet/dry adhesive inspired by mussels and geckos. Nature 448:338–341

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Xie W-J, Li M-X, Jiang Z-Q, Zhou W-X (2014) Triadic motifs in the dependence networks of virtual societies. Sci Rep 4:5244

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mead JM, Gruneberg S (2013) Programme Procurement in Construction. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Coello CAC, Dehuri S, Ghosh S (eds) (2009) Swarm Intelligence for Multi-objective Problems in Data Mining. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Tiliouine H, Estes RJ (2016) Social Development in North African Countries: Achievements and Current Challenges. In: Tiliouine H, Estes RJ (eds) The State of Social Progress of Islamic Societies: Social, Economic, Political, and Ideological Challenges. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 109–136

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 Environmental and Ecological Statistics.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) What Does Science Say About Average Penis Sizes From Around The World? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-does-science-say-about-average-penis-sizes-from-around-the-world/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1988) Microwave Landing Systems: Additional Systems Should Not Be Procured Unless Benefits Proven. 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

Ford VF (2012) An Exploratory Investigation of the Relationship between Turnover Intentions, Work Exhaustion and Disengagement among IT Professionals in a Single Institution of Higher Education in a Major Metropolitan Area. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Barry E, Kishkovsky S (2013) Latest Twist at Bolshoi: Director Is Pushed Out. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jones 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Jones 2002; Maloy and Powrie 2011).

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

Two authors: (Maloy and Powrie 2011)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental and Ecological Statistics
Abbreviation	Environ. Ecol. Stat.
ISSN (print)	1352-8505
ISSN (online)	1573-3009
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty General Environmental Science Statistics and Probability