How to format your references using the Environmental Processes citation style

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

Gaston KJ (2010) Ecology. Valuing common species. Science 327:154–155

A journal article with 2 authors

Tester M, Langridge P (2010) Breeding technologies to increase crop production in a changing world. Science 327:818–822

A journal article with 3 authors

Rohde DLT, Olson S, Chang JT (2004) Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans. Nature 431:562–566

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hinds DA, Stuve LL, Nilsen GB, et al (2005) Whole-genome patterns of common DNA variation in three human populations. Science 307:1072–1079

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Homer S, Leibowitz ML (2013) Inside the Yield Book. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Romero A, West SE (eds) (2005) Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Waltman L, Yan E (2014) PageRank-Related Methods for Analyzing Citation Networks. In: Ding Y, Rousseau R, Wolfram D (eds) Measuring Scholarly Impact: Methods and Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 83–100

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 Processes.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Gene Therapy Treats Dogs With Muscle Disease, Paving Way For Human Trials. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-therapy-treats-dogs-muscle-disease-paving-way-human-trials/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2001) Student Discipline: Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. 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

Zavala M (2009) Latinos’ attitudes towards receiving mental health services. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hartocollis A (2015) New Girl in School: Transgender Surgery at 18. 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 (Gaston 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gaston 2010; Tester and Langridge 2010).

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

Two authors: (Tester and Langridge 2010)
Three or more authors: (Hinds et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Processes
Abbreviation	Environ. Process.
ISSN (print)	2198-7491
ISSN (online)	2198-7505
Scope	Environmental Engineering Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Pollution Water Science and Technology