How to format your references using the Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions citation style

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

Stratt, R.M., 2008. Chemistry. Nonlinear thinking about molecular energy transfer. Science 321, 1789–1790.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pati, A.K., Braunstein, S.L., 2000. Impossibility of deleting an unknown quantum state. Nature 404, 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayes, D., Griffin, G.B., Engel, G.S., 2014. Response to Comment on “Engineering coherence among excited states in synthetic heterodimer systems.” Science 344, 1099.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Preston, B.T., Stevenson, I.R., Pemberton, J.M., Wilson, K., 2001. Dominant rams lose out by sperm depletion. Nature 409, 681–682.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hessel, V., Löwe, H., Müller, A., Kolb, G., 2005. Chemical Micro Process Engineering. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Linares, F., 2015. Introduction to Nonlinear Dispersive Equations, 2nd ed. 2015. ed, Universitext. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Selvi, S.S.D., Vivek, S.S., Shukla, D., Rangan Chandrasekaran, P., 2008. Efficient and Provably Secure Certificateless Multi-receiver Signcryption, in: Baek, J., Bao, F., Chen, K., Lai, X. (Eds.), Provable Security: Second International Conference, ProvSec 2008, Shanghai, China, October 30 - November 1, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 52–67.

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 Innovation and Societal Transitions.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Students Develop Cheap Water Treatment System Using Chip Packets [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/students-develop-cheap-water-treatment-system-using-chip-packets/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1989. Actions to Mitigate Aircraft Noise at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (No. T-RCED-90-4). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Carter, C.A., 2008. The Panhellenic Project: Assessing learning engagement using Web 2.0 technologies (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2013. A Stadium In Queens Is No Walk In the Park. New York Times B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stratt, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Pati and Braunstein, 2000; Stratt, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Pati and Braunstein, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Preston et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Abbreviation	Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit.
ISSN (print)	2210-4224
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