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

Golbeck, J. 2008. Computer science. Weaving a Web of trust. Science 321(5896): 1640–1641.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mercer, J., and Helenius, A. 2008. Vaccinia virus uses macropinocytosis and apoptotic mimicry to enter host cells. Science 320(5875): 531–535.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alston, J.M., Beddow, J.M., and Pardey, P.G. 2009. Agriculture. Agricultural research, productivity, and food prices in the long run. Science 325(5945): 1209–1210.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Miller, M.J., Wei, S.H., Parker, I., and Cahalan, M.D. 2002. Two-photon imaging of lymphocyte motility and antigen response in intact lymph node. Science 296(5574): 1869–1873.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parker, D. 2011. Global Real Estate Investment Trusts. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Riaño, D., Teije, A.T., Miksch, S., and Peleg, M. (Editors). 2011. Knowledge Representation for Health-Care: ECAI 2010 Workshop KR4HC 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, August 17, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Geldof, D. 2016. Superdiversity and the City. In Social Work and the City: Urban Themes in 21st-Century Social Work. Edited by C. Williams. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London. pp. 127–149.

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

Andrews, R. 2016, December 5. 90 Megacity Mayors Pledge To Fight Dangerous Climate Change. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/90-megacity-mayors-pledge-fight-damgerous-climate-change/ [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. 1977. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s System of Accounting for Accounts Receivable. 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

John, S.P. 2017. Drying without Dying: The Resurrection Fern Pleopeltis polypodioides. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Liogier, R. 2017, April 12. France’s neither-nor election. New York Times: 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Golbeck 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Mercer and Helenius 2008; Golbeck 2008).

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

Two authors: (Mercer and Helenius 2008)
Three or more authors: (Miller et al. 2002)

About the journal

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