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

Samarasekera IV (2009) Universities need a new social contract. Nature 462:160–161

A journal article with 2 authors

Simons M, Eichmann A (2013) Physiology. Lymphatics are in my veins. Science 341:622–624

A journal article with 3 authors

Yan W-B, Huang J-F, Fan H (2013) Tunable single-photon frequency conversion in a Sagnac interferometer. Sci Rep 3:3555

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Custers J, Gegenwart P, Wilhelm H, et al (2003) The break-up of heavy electrons at a quantum critical point. Nature 424:524–527

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kumar V, Petersen JA (2012) Statistical Methods in Customer Relationship Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Poibeau T, Saggion H, Piskorski J, Yangarber R (eds) (2013) Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kim C, Song J, Lee H-W (2014) TSV Interface for DRAM. In: Lee H-W, Song J (eds) High-Bandwidth Memory Interface. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 77–86

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

Andrew E (2015) Anti-Science Senator Will Oversee Committee Covering NASA and Science Funding. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/anti-science-senator-will-oversee-committee-covering-nasa-and-science-funding/. 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 (2000) GAO Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Cagle West M (2010) Effective software engineering leadership for development programs. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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 (2017) Venezuela Cancels Dudamel’s Tour. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Samarasekera 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Samarasekera 2009; Simons and Eichmann 2013).

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

Two authors: (Simons and Eichmann 2013)
Three or more authors: (Custers et al. 2003)

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