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

Beaudet, Arthur L. 2010. “Which Way for Genetic-Test Regulation? Leave Test Interpretation to Specialists.” Nature 466 (7308): 816–817.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marande, William, and Gertraud Burger. 2007. “Mitochondrial DNA as a Genomic Jigsaw Puzzle.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5849): 415.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, Jung Bin, Chankyu Park, and Seoul National University Investigation Committee. 2006. “Molecular Genetics: Verification That Snuppy Is a Clone.” Nature 440 (7081): E2-3.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rahul, P. R. C., R. L. Bhawar, D. C. Ayantika, A. S. Panicker, P. D. Safai, V. Tharaprabhakaran, B. Padmakumari, and M. P. Raju. 2014. “Double Blanket Effect Caused by Two Layers of Black Carbon Aerosols Escalates Warming in the Brahmaputra River Valley.” Scientific Reports 4 (January): 3670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burghardt, Galen, and Brian Walls. 2011. Managed Futures for Institutional Investors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Paugh, Patricia, Tricia Kress, and Robert Lake, eds. 2014. Teaching towards Democracy with Postmodern and Popular Culture Texts. Imagination and Praxis, Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Perret, Bernard. 2007. “Reorganizing the Activity Cycle: The Stakes in a New Social Contract.” In Ages, Generations and the Social Contract: The Demographic Challenges Facing the Welfare State, edited by Sophie Pennec and Jacques Légaré, 105–113. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. “Watch This Hydrogel Strut Across A Table.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-hydrogel-strut-across-table/.

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. Airline Competition: Effects of Airline Market Concentration and Barriers to Entry on Airfares. RCED-91-101. 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

Mukherjee, Niloy. 2003. “Development of High Sensitivity Bending Mode Polymer Piezoelectric Devices for Inner Ear Implantation.” Doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Kishkovsky, Sophia. 2003. “Muscovites Replace ‘This Old House’ With ‘Changing Rooms.’” New York Times, October 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beaudet 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Beaudet 2010; Marande and Burger 2007).

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

Two authors: (Marande and Burger 2007)
Three authors: (Lee, Park, and Seoul National University Investigation Committee 2006)
4 or more authors: (Rahul et al. 2014)

About the journal

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