How to format your references using the Environmental Pollution citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Pollution. 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	Download the output style file
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

Smith, M., 2009. Time to turn off the lights. Nature 457, 27.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gatfield, D., Schibler, U., 2007. Physiology. Proteasomes keep the circadian clock ticking. Science 316, 1135–1136.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thornton, J.W., Need, E., Crews, D., 2003. Resurrecting the ancestral steroid receptor: ancient origin of estrogen signaling. Science 301, 1714–1717.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Repp, J., Meyer, G., Olsson, F.E., Persson, M., 2004. Controlling the charge state of individual gold adatoms. Science 305, 493–495.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Freeman, R.L., 2002. Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

McComas, W.F. (Ed.), 2014. The Language of Science Education: An Expanded Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts in Science Teaching and Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Hunton, J., 2015. Spaces of Projection Method Patterns and their Cohomology, in: Kellendonk, J., Lenz, D., Savinien, J. (Eds.), Mathematics of Aperiodic Order, Progress in Mathematics. Springer, Basel, pp. 105–135.

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 Pollution.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. Missing Continent Was Destroyed By India And Madagascar’s Tug-Of-War [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/missing-continent-destroyed-india-madagascar-tugofwar/ (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, 1996. FCC: Redesignating and Reallocating Frequency Bands and Establishing Rules and Policies for Local Multipoint Distribution Service and Fixed Satellite Services (No. OGC-96-44). 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

Tran, L.N., 2013. Low-cost vehicle remote diagnostic system (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Kelly, M., 1992. Being Whatever It Takes to Win Election. New York Times 41.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gatfield and Schibler, 2007; Smith, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gatfield and Schibler, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Repp et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Pollution
Abbreviation	Environ. Pollut.
ISSN (print)	0269-7491
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution General Medicine Toxicology