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

Keller, E.F. 2007. A clash of two cultures. Nature 445(7128): 603.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carbone, C., and Gittleman, J.L. 2002. A common rule for the scaling of carnivore density. Science 295(5563): 2273–2276.

A journal article with 3 authors

Amin, M., Farhat, M., and Baǧcı, H. 2013. A dynamically reconfigurable Fano metamaterial through graphene tuning for switching and sensing applications. Sci. Rep. 3: 2105.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, W.-J., Tian, K., Jiang, H., and Yu, H.-Q. 2013. Facile synthesis of highly efficient and recyclable magnetic solid acid from biomass waste. Sci. Rep. 3: 2419.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldberger, A.L., and Goldberger, Z.D. 2012. Becoming a Consummate Clinician. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wittevrongel, S., and Phung-Duc, T. (Editors). 2016. Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications: 23rd International Conference, ASMTA 2016, Cardiff, UK, August 24-26, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Backhaus, G.F. 2009. Regulatory Aspects in Chemical Control of Fungal Diseases: Impact on Efficient Plant Production. In Recent Developments in Management of Plant Diseases. Edited by U. Gisi, I. Chet, and M.L. Gullino. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht. pp. 47–55.

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

Fang, J. 2015, July 22. Plant Defense Hormones Build Healthy Microbiomes for Roots. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plant-defense-hormones-build-healthy-microbiome-roots/ [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. 1992. Space Station: NASA’s Software Development Approach Increases Safety and Cost 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

Goldberg, D.S. 2010. Poly (amido amine) dendrimers: Transepithelial transport mechanisms and applications in oral drug delivery. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Vecsey, G. 2013, January 14. They Left Their Hearts at Coogan’s Bluff. New York Times: D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keller 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Carbone and Gittleman 2002; Keller 2007).

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

Two authors: (Carbone and Gittleman 2002)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2013)

About the journal

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