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

Vidale, J. E. (2001). Geophysics. Peeling back the layers in Earth’s mantle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5541), 313.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nori, F., & Tonomura, A. (2006). Applied physics. Helical spin order on the move. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5759), 344–345.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gonçalves, B., Balcan, D., & Vespignani, A. (2013). Human mobility and the worldwide impact of intentional localized highly pathogenic virus release. Scientific reports, 3, 810.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Suslova, A., El-Atwani, O., Sagapuram, D., Harilal, S. S., & Hassanein, A. (2014). Recrystallization and grain growth induced by ELMs-like transient heat loads in deformed tungsten samples. Scientific reports, 4, 6845.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sengupta, D. L., & Liepa, V. V. (2005). Applied Electromagnetics and Electromagnetic Compatibility. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ahlert, D. (2013). Vertical Price Coordination and Brand Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Prohibition of Resale Price Maintenance. (B. Schefer, Ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Marwala, T., & Lagazio, M. (2011). Bayesian Approaches to Modeling Interstate Conflict. In M. Lagazio (Ed.), Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence (pp. 65–87). 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 Geochemistry and Health.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, October 16). Biodiversity Protects Ecosystems Against Climate Change. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/biodiversity-protects-ecosystems-against-climate-change/. 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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Telecommunications Readiness Critical, Yet Overall Status Largely Unknown (No. T-AIMD-98-212). 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

DeSpain, L. (2008). The relationship between police supervisor training and job satisfaction levels as reported by patrol officers (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2016, January 2). Revisiting an Effort to Expose the Evils of ‘Mein Kampf.’ New York Times, p. C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vidale 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Nori and Tonomura 2006; Vidale 2001).

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

Two authors: (Nori and Tonomura 2006)
Three or more authors: (Suslova 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