How to format your references using the Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Greeley, J. P. (2012). Chemistry. Active site of an industrial catalyst. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6083), 810–811.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyde, J. S., & Linn, M. C. (2006). Diversity. Gender similarities in mathematics and science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5799), 599–600.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moreira, J. A., Pacheco, J. M., & Santos, F. C. (2013). Evolution of collective action in adaptive social structures. Scientific Reports, 3, 1521.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liphardt, J., Onoa, B., Smith, S. B., Tinoco, I., Jr, & Bustamante, C. (2001). Reversible unfolding of single RNA molecules by mechanical force. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5517), 733–737.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yakir, B. (2013). Extremes in Random Fields: A Theory and its Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Biryukov, A., & Goyal, V. (Eds.). (2015). Progress in Cryptology -- INDOCRYPT 2015: 16th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Bangalore, India, December 6-9, 2015, Proceedings (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 9462). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Uludag, A. A., Erdaş, A., Özcan, Ş., Nalci, D., Güler, M. O., Çetinkaya, T., Uysal, M., & Akbulut, H. (2015). Cr- and V-Substituted LiMn2O4 Cathode Electrode Materials for High-Rate Battery Applications. In I. Dincer, C. O. Colpan, O. Kizilkan, & M. A. Ezan (Eds.), Progress in Clean Energy, Volume 2: Novel Systems and Applications (pp. 41–56). Springer International Publishing.

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 Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, October 20). Forecasting The Weather Of Distant Hot Jupiters. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/forecasting-the-weather-of-distant-hot-jupiters/

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. (2011). Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Mailing Credentials to Applicants’ Residences Would Not Be Consistent with DHS Policy (GAO-11-542R). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Holmes, K. (2008). Ethical practice online: An exploration of provider liability risk among practitioners in the emerging field of online therapy [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Cooper, M. (2017, October 24). More Slamming Door! More Slamming Door! New York Times, C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greeley, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Greeley, 2012; Hyde & Linn, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Hyde & Linn, 2006)
Three authors: (Moreira et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Liphardt et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture
ISSN (print)	1752-4032
ISSN (online)	1752-4040
Scope	Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law