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

Benjamin S (2000) QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY: Single Photons. Science 290:2273–2274

A journal article with 2 authors

Li JW-H, Vederas JC (2009) Drug discovery and natural products: end of an era or an endless frontier? Science 325:161–165

A journal article with 3 authors

London AJ, Parker LS, Aronson JD (2013) Public health. DNA identification after conflict or disaster. Science 341:1178–1179

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Qian S-B, McDonough H, Boellmann F, et al (2006) CHIP-mediated stress recovery by sequential ubiquitination of substrates and Hsp70. Nature 440:551–555

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Markley NG (2004) Principles of Differential Equations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pokorski M (ed) (2015) Respiratory Carcinogenesis. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

From PJ, Gravdahl JT, Pettersen KY (2014) Kinematics of Vehicle-Manipulator Systems. In: Gravdahl JT, Pettersen KY (eds) Vehicle-Manipulator Systems: Modeling for Simulation, Analysis, and Control. Springer, London, pp 169–189

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 (2017) Stunning Video Depicts Cassini Spacecraft’s Dramatic End. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-prepares-for-its-epic-grand-finale-mission-between-saturn-and-its-rings/. 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 (2017) High Risk: Actions Needed to Address Serious Weaknesses in Federal Management of Programs Serving Indian Tribes. 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

Pham MM-X (2017) Flymed Pharmacy, LLC, Home Delivery Services a Business Plan. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2007) Justices’ Ruling Limits Lawsuits On Pay Disparity. 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 (Benjamin 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Benjamin 2000; Li and Vederas 2009).

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

Two authors: (Li and Vederas 2009)
Three or more authors: (Qian et al. 2006)

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