How to format your references using the Environmental Geosciences citation style

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

Liman, E. R., 2012, Cell signaling. Putting the squeeze on phototransduction: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 338, no. 6104, p. 200–201.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray, R. D., and F. M. Jordan, 2000, Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion: Nature, v. 405, no. 6790, p. 1052–1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rignot, E., J. Mouginot, and B. Scheuchl, 2011, Ice flow of the Antarctic ice sheet: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 333, no. 6048, p. 1427–1430.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yu, S., K. Alapaty, R. Mathur, J. Pleim, Y. Zhang, C. Nolte, B. Eder, K. Foley, and T. Nagashima, 2014, Attribution of the United States “warming hole”: aerosol indirect effect and precipitable water vapor: Scientific reports, v. 4, p. 6929.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chapman, B. R., and E. G. Bolen, 2015, Ecology of North America: Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Houkes, W., 2010, Technical Functions: On the Use and Design of Artefacts: Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, VIII, 174 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Yusnita, M. A., M. P. Paulraj, S. Yaacob, A. B. Shahriman, R. Yusuf, and M. N. Fadzilah, 2016, Robustness Analysis of Feature Extractors for Ethnic Identification of Malaysian English Accents Database, in N. A. Yacob, M. Mohamed, and M. A. K. Megat Hanafiah, eds., Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2014): Science and Technology: Singapore, Springer, p. 47–55.

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 Geosciences.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016, Planet Earth II Captures The World’s Smallest Snake On Camera: IFLScience: <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/planet-earth-ii-captures-worlds-smallest-snake-camera/> (accessed October 30, 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, 1973, Management of the Overseas Dependents School System, B-131587: 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

Cole, K. W., 2010, Principal investigator and department administrator perceptions of services provided by Offices of Research Administration at research universities, Doctoral dissertation: Tampa, FL, University of South Florida.

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

Feeney, K., 2008, Salads, Sandwiches, And Parking: p. NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Liman, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gray and Jordan, 2000; Liman, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Gray and Jordan, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Geosciences
Abbreviation	Environ. Geosci.
ISSN (print)	1075-9565
ISSN (online)	1526-0984
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science