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

Dickson D (2001) Weaving a social web. Nature 414:587

A journal article with 2 authors

Mukhopadhyay RD, Ajayaghosh A (2015) Supramolecular chemistry. Living supramolecular polymerization. Science 349:241–242

A journal article with 3 authors

Yao L, Xi L, Jiang H (2014) Photoacoustic computed microscopy. Sci Rep 4:4960

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schwartz MK, Mills LS, McKelvey KS, et al (2002) DNA reveals high dispersal synchronizing the population dynamics of Canada lynx. Nature 415:520–522

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stamp M (2011) Information Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ehrenfeld JM, Urman RD, Segal S (eds) (2016) Anesthesia Student Survival Guide: A Case-Based Approach, 2nd ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Macheleidt W, Grischek T, Nestler W (2006) New Approaches for Estimating Streambed Infiltration Rates. In: Hubbs SA (ed) Riverbank Filtration Hydrology: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Riverbank Filtration Hydrology Bratislava, Slovakia September 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 73–91

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

Davis J (2017) A “Hog Apocalypse” Could Be Heading For Feral Pigs In Texas. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/a-hog-apocalypse-could-be-heading-for-feral-pigs-in-texas/. 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 (2005) Amtrak: Acela’s Continued Problems Underscore the Importance of Meeting Broader Challenges in Managing Large-Scale Projects. 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

Gonzalez SE (2014) Ideal leadership practices in Head Start: Understanding leadership from the perspectives of directors and teachers. 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

Billard M (2010) As Calculated As Tie-Dye Can Get. New York Times E5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickson 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dickson 2001; Mukhopadhyay and Ajayaghosh 2015).

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

Two authors: (Mukhopadhyay and Ajayaghosh 2015)
Three or more authors: (Schwartz et al. 2002)

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