How to format your references using the Environmental Reviews citation style

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

Mackas, D.L. 2011. Does blending of chlorophyll data bias temporal trend? Nature 472(7342): E4-5; discussion E8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

DeMeo, F.E., and Carry, B. 2014. Solar System evolution from compositional mapping of the asteroid belt. Nature 505(7485): 629–634.

A journal article with 3 authors

Caron, J.-B., Morris, S.C., and Cameron, C.B. 2013. Tubicolous enteropneusts from the Cambrian period. Nature 495(7442): 503–506.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cauchemez, S., Valleron, A.-J., Boëlle, P.-Y., Flahault, A., and Ferguson, N.M. 2008. Estimating the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from Sentinel data. Nature 452(7188): 750–754.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balan, V., and Neagu, M. 2011. Jet Single-Time Lagrange Geometry and Its Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gladyshev, P., and Rogers, M.K. (Editors). 2012. Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime: Third International ICST Conference, ICDF2C 2011, Dublin, Ireland, October 26-28, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kreutzer, J. 2010. Cardiac Catheterization. In Critical Care of Children with Heart Disease: Basic Medical and Surgical Concepts. Edited by R. Munoz, V. Morell, E. Cruz, and C. Vetterly. Springer, London. pp. 37–55.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014, August 26. Amazing GIF Shows What It Would Look Like If The Orion Nebula Was Only 4 Light Years Away. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazing-gif-shows-what-it-would-look-if-orion-nebula-was-only-4-light-years-away/ [accessed 30 October 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. 1997. Air Traffic Control: Immature Software Acquisition Processes Increase FAA System Acquisition Risks. 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

Cornejo, V.M. 2010. Teachers’ perceptions about promoting mental health in the classroom. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kishkovsky, S. 2005, February 15. A Choreographer Vanishes In Murky Russian Mystery. New York Times: E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mackas 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Mackas 2011; DeMeo and Carry 2014).

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

Two authors: (DeMeo and Carry 2014)
Three or more authors: (Cauchemez et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Reviews
Abbreviation	Environ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1181-8700
ISSN (online)	1208-6053
Scope	General Environmental Science