How to format your references using the Environmental Science and Policy citation style

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

Piran, T., 2002. Astronomy. Demotion looms for gamma-ray bursts. Science 295, 986–987.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milligan, A.J., Morel, F.M.M., 2002. A proton buffering role for silica in diatoms. Science 297, 1848–1850.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reinisch, K.M., Nibert, M.L., Harrison, S.C., 2000. Structure of the reovirus core at 3.6 A resolution. Nature 404, 960–967.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Manucharyan, V.E., Koch, J., Glazman, L.I., Devoret, M.H., 2009. Fluxonium: single cooper-pair circuit free of charge offsets. Science 326, 113–116.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoy, J., 2015. Forensic Radio Survey Techniques for Cell Site Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Arya, K., 2016. Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting: A Best Practice Guide for Managing Users and PCs Through Group Policy. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Surh, Y.-J., Chun, K.-S., 2007. CANCER CHEMOPREVENTIVE EFFECTS OF CURCUMIN, in: Aggarwal, B.B., Surh, Y.-J., Shishodia, S. (Eds.), The Molecular Targets and Therapeutic Uses of Curcumin in Health and Disease, ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 149–172.

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 Science and Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. There Are Now Just Four Northern White Rhinos Left On Earth [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/four-northern-white-rhino-left-after-female-dies/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1998. Surface Transportation: Improvements in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Commodity Flow Survey (No. RCED-98-90R). 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

Allard, I.N., 2010. Examining the relationship between organizational culture and performance: Moderators of culture gap (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Two Killed In Bus Stop Blast. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Piran, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Milligan and Morel, 2002; Piran, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Milligan and Morel, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Manucharyan et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Science and Policy
Abbreviation	Environ. Sci. Policy
ISSN (print)	1462-9011
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development