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

Zare, R. N. (2006). Chemistry. Resonances in reaction dynamics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5766), 1383–1385.

A journal article with 2 authors

von Storch, H., & Stehr, N. (2000). Climate change in perspective. Nature, 405(6787), 615.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chisari, F. V., Mason, W. S., & Seeger, C. (2014). Virology. Comment on “Specific and nonhepatotoxic degradation of nuclear hepatitis B virus cccDNA.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6189), 1237.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sigrist, S. J., Thiel, P. R., Reiff, D. F., Lachance, P. E., Lasko, P., & Schuster, C. M. (2000). Postsynaptic translation affects the efficacy and morphology of neuromuscular junctions. Nature, 405(6790), 1062–1065.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Castle, D., Cline, C., Daar, A. S., Tsamis, C., & Singer, P. A. (2006). Science, Society, and the Supermarket. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tatsien, L. (2009). Global Propagation of Regular Nonlinear Hyperbolic Waves. (W. Libin, Ed.) (1st ed., Vol. 76). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Wan, K., & Alagar, V. (2008). An Intensional Functional Model of Trust. In Y. Karabulut, J. Mitchell, P. Herrmann, & C. D. Jensen (Eds.), Trust Management II: Proceedings of IFIPTM 2008: Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, June 18-20, 2008, Trondheim, Norway (pp. 69–85). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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

Taub, B. (2016, December 1). Magnetic Stimulation To The Brain Can Make You More Horny. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/magnetic-stimulation-brain-can-make-you-more-horny/. 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. (1994). Electronic Surveillance: Technologies Continue to Pose Challenges (No. T-AIMD-94-173). 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

Rosie, S. A. (2012). Examining stakeholder perceptions of educational success in the Malagasy public education system (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

Sturm, J. (2017, May 12). On the Move. New York Times, p. BR22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zare 2006).
This sentence cites two references (von Storch and Stehr 2000; Zare 2006).

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

Two authors: (von Storch and Stehr 2000)
Three or more authors: (Sigrist et al. 2000)

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