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

Kaplan, K., 2009. Show us the money. Nature 457, 624–625.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mehta, M.P., Baross, J.A., 2006. Nitrogen fixation at 92 degrees C by a hydrothermal vent archaeon. Science 314, 1783–1786.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shim, J.H., Haule, K., Kotliar, G., 2007. Fluctuating valence in a correlated solid and the anomalous properties of delta-plutonium. Nature 446, 513–516.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Penterman, R., Klink, S.I., de Koning, H., Nisato, G., Broer, D.J., 2002. Single-substrate liquid-crystal displays by photo-enforced stratification. Nature 417, 55–58.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitz, C.B., Ewing, J., Hecht, J., 2012. Introduction to Laser Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Onken, R., 2010. System-Ergonomic Design of Cognitive Automation: Dual-Mode Cognitive Design of Vehicle Guidance and Control Work Systems, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Demeuse, M., Baye, A., 2007. Measuring and Comparing the Equity of Education Systems in Europe, in: Soguel, N.C., Jaccard, P. (Eds.), Governance and Performance of Education Systems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 85–106.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Study Suggests Newborns Delivered By C-Section Have a Higher risk of Developing Chronic Health Problems [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-suggests-newborns-delivered-caesarean-have-higher-risk-developing-chronic/ (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. Global Positioning System Augmentations (No. RCED-96-74R). 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

Alsobrook, J.A., 2013. Music Education in America: A Content Analysis and National Perspective of Standards-Based Outcomes for K–8 General Music (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Hu, W., Remnick, N., 2015. Belated Focus on Prime Suspect in an Outbreak. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaplan, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kaplan, 2009; Mehta and Baross, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Mehta and Baross, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Penterman et al., 2002)

About the journal

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