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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smaglik, P., 2005. Generous advice. Nature 435, 241.

A journal article with 2 authors

Amack, J.D., Manning, M.L., 2012. Knowing the boundaries: extending the differential adhesion hypothesis in embryonic cell sorting. Science 338, 212–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petsch, S.T., Eglington, T.I., Edwards, K.J., 2001. 14C-dead living biomass: evidence for microbial assimilation of ancient organic carbon during shale weathering. Science 292, 1127–1131.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shibata, N., Goto, A., Choi, S.-Y., Mizoguchi, T., Findlay, S.D., Yamamoto, T., Ikuhara, Y., 2008. Direct imaging of reconstructed atoms on TiO2 (110) surfaces. Science 322, 570–573.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Müller, G., Ponick, B., 2005. Grundlagen elektrischer Maschinen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Ruas, A., Gold, C. (Eds.), 2008. Headway in Spatial Data Handling: 13th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Minter, N.J., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., MacNaughton, R.B., Davies, N.S., Gibling, M.R., 2016. The Prelude to Continental Invasion, in: Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A. (Eds.), The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events: Volume 1: Precambrian and Paleozoic, Topics in Geobiology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 157–204.

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. Elephant Crushes Car in Thailand [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/elephant-crushes-car-thailand/ (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, 1998. Space Station: U.S. Life-Cycle Funding Requirements (No. T-NSIAD-98-212). 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

Thigpen, L.C., 2012. Building a concrete foundation: A mixed-method study of teaching styles and the use of concrete, representational, and abstract mathematics instruction (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Poniewozik, J., 2016. When There’s Nothing Like a Good Cry. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Amack and Manning, 2012; Smaglik, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Amack and Manning, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Shibata et al., 2008)

About the journal

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