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

Schoeninger, Margaret J. 2012. “Palaeoanthropology: The Ancestral Dinner Table.” Nature 487 (7405): 42–43.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barkman, Todd, and Jianzhi Zhang. 2009. “Evidence for Escape from Adaptive Conflict?” Nature 462 (7274): E1; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nabel, Gary J., Chih-Jen Wei, and Julie E. Ledgerwood. 2011. “Vaccinate for the next H2N2 Pandemic Now.” Nature 471 (7337): 157–158.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ainla, Alar, Irep Gözen, Bodil Hakonen, and Aldo Jesorka. 2013. “Lab on a Biomembrane: Rapid Prototyping and Manipulation of 2D Fluidic Lipid Bilayers Circuits.” Scientific Reports 3 (September): 2743.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ersoy, Okan K. 2007. Diffraction, Fourier Optics and Imaging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yalovsky, Shaul, František Baluška, and Alan Jones, eds. 2010. Integrated G Proteins Signaling in Plants. Signaling and Communication in Plants. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Krishans, Zigurds, Anna Mutule, Yuri Merkuryev, and Irina Oleinikova. 2011. “Optimal Initial States Method.” In Dynamic Management of Sustainable Development: Methods for Large Technical Systems, edited by Anna Mutule, Yuri Merkuryev, and Irina Oleinikova, 45–56. London: Springer.

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

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2016. “Cassini Begins Its Ring-Grazing Orbits Of Saturn.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-begins-its-ring-grazing-orbits-of-saturn/.

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. 1998. Charter Schools: Recent Experiences in Accessing Federal Funds. T-HEHS-98-129. 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

Payne, Linda Gail. 2015. “The Experience of Caring for Women with Drug or Alcohol Problems in the General Hospital.” Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Rothenberg, Ben. 2017. “Federer Beats Wawrinka, and His Own Aging Body, to Reach Final.” New York Times, January 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schoeninger 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Schoeninger 2012; Barkman and Zhang 2009).

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

Two authors: (Barkman and Zhang 2009)
Three authors: (Nabel, Wei, and Ledgerwood 2011)
4 or more authors: (Ainla et al. 2013)

About the journal

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