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

Schleich WP (2000) Engineering decoherence. Nature 403:256–257

A journal article with 2 authors

Singel DJ, Stamler JS (2004) Blood traffic control. Nature 430:297

A journal article with 3 authors

Parens E, Johnston J, Moses J (2008) Ethics. Do we need “synthetic bioethics”? Science 321:1449

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sundareshwar PV, Morris JT, Koepfler EK, Fornwalt B (2003) Phosphorus limitation of coastal ecosystem processes. Science 299:563–565

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dos Santos EC Jr, Cabral da Silva ER (2014) ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kotlarsky J, Willcocks LP, Oshri I (eds) (2011) New Studies in Global IT and Business Service Outsourcing: 5th Global Scourcing Workshop 2011, Courchevel, France, March 14-17, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wheatly MG, Gao Y, Gillen CM (2010) Epithelial Calcium Transport in Crustaceans: Adaptation to Intrinsic and Extrinsic Stressors. In: Gerencser GA (ed) Epithelial Transport Physiology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 73–90

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 D (2016) Losing Control: The Dangers Of Killer Robots. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/losing-control-the-dangers-of-killer-robots/. 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 (1992) Transportation Infrastructure: Urban Transportation Planning Can Better Address Modal Trade-offs. 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

Gemmer J (2012) Shape Selection in the non-Euclidean Model of Elasticity. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; As Race Looks Tighter, Theme Is Truth and Trust. 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 (Schleich 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Schleich 2000; Singel and Stamler 2004).

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

Two authors: (Singel and Stamler 2004)
Three or more authors: (Sundareshwar 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

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