How to format your references using the Environmental Geochemistry and Health citation style

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

Venema, L. (2011). Silicon electronics and beyond. Nature, 479(7373), 309.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson, M. I., & Wilson, R. J. (2002). A topographically forced asymmetry in the martian circulation and climate. Nature, 416(6878), 298–301.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, Q., Clark, M. S., & Palmiter, R. D. (2012). Deciphering a neuronal circuit that mediates appetite. Nature, 483(7391), 594–597.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lin, C.-W., Zhao, Z., Kim, J., & Huang, J. (2014). Pencil drawn strain gauges and chemiresistors on paper. Scientific reports, 4, 3812.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrucelli, J. R. (2013). Detecting Fraud in Organizations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nordström, B., & Ranta, A. (Eds.). (2008). Advances in Natural Language Processing: 6th International Conference, GoTAL 2008 Gothenburg, Sweden, August 25-27, 2008 Proceedings (Vol. 5221). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Burgess, L. C. (2016). Provenance in Digital Libraries: Source, Context, Value and Trust. In V. L. Lemieux (Ed.), Building Trust in Information: Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance (pp. 81–91). 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 Geochemistry and Health.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, January 27). Exoplanet With Gigantic Rings 200 Times Bigger than Saturn’s Discovered. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2003). Maritime Administration: Weaknesses Identified in Management of the Title XI Loan Guarantee Program (No. GAO-03-728T). 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

Noxon, C. (2017). Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition: Insights from Jōmon Paleodemography (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, October 10). Backup Catcher’s Unlikely Three-Run Blast Helps Nationals Even Series. New York Times, p. D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Venema 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Richardson and Wilson 2002; Venema 2011).

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

Two authors: (Richardson and Wilson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Geochemistry and Health
Abbreviation	Environ. Geochem. Health
ISSN (print)	0269-4042
ISSN (online)	1573-2983
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering Water Science and Technology General Medicine