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

Bennetzen J (2002) The rice genome. Opening the door to comparative plant biology. Science 296:60–63

A journal article with 2 authors

Cooper KM, Kent AJR (2014) Rapid remobilization of magmatic crystals kept in cold storage. Nature 506:480–483

A journal article with 3 authors

Lan R, Irvine JTS, Tao S (2013) Synthesis of ammonia directly from air and water at ambient temperature and pressure. Sci Rep 3:1145

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tian F, Duan D, Li D, et al (2014) Miscibility and ordered structures of MgO-ZnO alloys under high pressure. Sci Rep 4:5759

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yavaş M (2011) Applied English Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Zezula P (2006) Similarity Search The Metric Space Approach. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Klaus P “phil”, Edvardsson B (2014) Striking the Right Balance: How to Design, Implement, and Operationalize Customer Experience Management Programs. In: Baglieri E, Karmarkar U (eds) Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater? Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 69–89

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

Evans K (2016) Here’s How To Get “Pokémon Go” In The UK On IPhone And Android — Even Though It’s Not Out Here Yet. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/heres-how-to-get-pokemon-go-in-the-uk-on-iphone-and-android-even-though-its-not-out-here-yet/. 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 (1982) The Federal Communications Commission’s International Telecommunications Activities. 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

Yuan S (2008) Aberrations of anamorphic optical systems. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Hodara S (2014) Creatures Great, Small and Imagined. New York Times CT9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bennetzen 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bennetzen 2002; Cooper and Kent 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cooper and Kent 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tian et al. 2014)

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