How to format your references using the Environmental Education Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Education Research. 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

Cherry, M. 2000. “Construction Starts on Largest Telescope in the South.” Nature 407 (6800): 4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nilsen, Timothy W., and Brenton R. Graveley. 2010. “Expansion of the Eukaryotic Proteome by Alternative Splicing.” Nature 463 (7280): 457–463.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, Duo, M. Alexandra Searles, and Aaron Klug. 2003. “Crystal Structure of a Zinc-Finger-RNA Complex Reveals Two Modes of Molecular Recognition.” Nature 426 (6962): 96–100.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wright, Caroline F., Sarah A. Teichmann, Jane Clarke, and Christopher M. Dobson. 2005. “The Importance of Sequence Diversity in the Aggregation and Evolution of Proteins.” Nature 438 (7069): 878–881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jaffe, Joseph. 2010. Flip the Funnel. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Alexandridis K., Antonis. 2013. Weather Derivatives: Modeling and Pricing Weather-Related Risk. Edited by Achilleas D. Zapranis. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ng, Xu Wen, Raghavendra C. Mundargi, and Subbu S. Venkatraman. 2015. “Nanomedicine: Size-Related Drug Delivery Applications, Including Periodontics and Endodontics.” In Nanotechnology in Endodontics: Current and Potential Clinical Applications, edited by Anil Kishen, 71–95. Cham: 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 Education Research.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Homo Naledi: Determining The Age Of Fossils Is Not An Exact Science.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/homo-naledi-determining-age-fossils-not-exact-science/.

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. 1991. Services for the Elderly: Longstanding Transportation Problems Need More Federal Attention. HRD-91-117. Washington, DC: 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

Milner, Marleen. 2009. “An Evaluation of the Influence of Case Method Instruction on the Reflective Thinking of MSW Students.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Saslow, Linda. 2007. “Nassau County Buys Farm Development Rights.” New York Times, April 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cherry 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Cherry 2000; Nilsen and Graveley 2010).

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

Two authors: (Nilsen and Graveley 2010)
Three authors: (Lu, Searles, and Klug 2003)
4 or more authors: (Wright et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Education Research
Abbreviation	Environ. Educ. Res.
ISSN (print)	1350-4622
ISSN (online)	1469-5871
Scope	Education