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

Binney, J. J. (2006). Astronomy. Triangulating the galaxy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5757), 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

England, P. C., & Katz, R. F. (2010). Global systematics of arc volcano position. Nature, 468(7325), E6-7; discussion E7-8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gawronski, H., Mehlhorn, M., & Morgenstern, K. (2008). Imaging phonon excitation with atomic resolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5865), 930–933.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wilson, R. J., Thomas, C. D., Fox, R., Roy, D. B., & Kunin, W. E. (2004). Spatial patterns in species distributions reveal biodiversity change. Nature, 432(7015), 393–396.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armstrong, R. A., & Hilton, A. C. (2010). Statistical Analysis in Microbiology: Statnotes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Recchia, L. (2011). Multicriteria Analysis and LCA Techniques: With Applications to Agro-Engineering Problems (P. Boncinelli, E. Cini, M. Vieri, F. Garbati Pegna, & D. Sarri, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wadkar, S., & Siddalingaiah, M. (2014). Basics of MapReduce Development. In M. Siddalingaiah (Ed.), Pro Apache Hadoop (pp. 73–106). Apress.

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

Luntz, S. (2016, June 9). How Slime Molds Make Decisions. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-slime-molds-make-decisions/

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. (2016). Federal Air Marshal Service: Additional Actions Needed to Ensure Air Marshals’ Mission Readiness (GAO-16-764). 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

Garibay, O. (2017). Towards a hybrid approach to mariachi education - Bridging the gap between formal and informal transmission of musical culture [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

Stewart, J. B. (2016, October 7). Markets Skittish Over Deutsche’s Exposure. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Binney, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Binney, 2006; England & Katz, 2010).

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

Two authors: (England & Katz, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Wilson et al., 2004)

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