How to format your references using the Environmental Research Communications citation style

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

[1]

Bell G 2001 Neutral macroecology Science 293 2413–8

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Weston C R and Davis R J 2001 Signal transduction: signaling specificity- a complex affair Science 292 2439–40

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Park C Y, Shcheglovitov A and Dolmetsch R 2010 The CRAC channel activator STIM1 binds and inhibits L-type voltage-gated calcium channels Science 330 101–5

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Garfield A S, Cowley M, Smith F M, Moorwood K, Stewart-Cox J E, Gilroy K, Baker S, Xia J, Dalley J W, Hurst L D, Wilkinson L S, Isles A R and Ward A 2011 Distinct physiological and behavioural functions for parental alleles of imprinted Grb10 Nature 469 534–8

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

MacIsaac B and Langton R 2011 Gas Turbine Propulsion Systems (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Gruen D M, Shenderova O A and Vul’ A Y 2005 Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond St. Petersburg, Russia 7–10 June 2004 vol 192 (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Prasath R A, Poyyamoli G, Boruah D, Nandhivarman M and Edwin G A 2015 The Role of Higher Educational Institutions and Other Training Organizations to Promote Renewable Energy in India Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives: Approaches, Methods and Perspectives World Sustainability Series ed W Leal Filho, N Muthu, G Edwin and M Sima (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 37–52

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 Research Communications.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A 2016 Supernovae Might Help Supermassive Black Holes Grow IFLScience

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1995 Information Superhighway: An Overview of Technology Challenges (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Barrett C 2010 Racial congruence and its effects on social integration and school involvement: A multi-level model Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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

[1]

Vecsey G 2010 Less Than Two Years In, Sanchez Era Has Arrived New York Times D5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Research Communications
ISSN (online)	2515-7620
Scope