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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Schilling, G., 2000. HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS: X-ray Satellites Seek Clues to Bursts. Science 290, 927.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roesner, S., Aggarwal, V.K., 2012. Organic chemistry: reactions at the end of a tether. Nature 487, 48–49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yuan, X., Xiao, S., Taylor, T.N., 2005. Lichen-like symbiosis 600 million years ago. Science 308, 1017–1020.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Whittaker, J.M., Müller, R.D., Leitchenkov, G., Stagg, H., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C., Goncharov, A., 2007. Major Australian-Antarctic plate reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor bend time. Science 318, 83–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lehman, R., McMillan, L.G., 2011. Options for Volatile Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bailey, D.L., Townsend, D.W., Valk, P.E., Maisey, M.N. (Eds.), 2005. Positron Emission Tomography: Basic Sciences. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Papadimitriou, C.H., 2007. The Computation of Equilibria, in: Deng, X., Graham, F.C. (Eds.), Internet and Network Economics: Third International Workshop, WINE 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, December 12-14, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 5–6.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Meteorites Show How Dry Mars Really Is [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1989. Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. I. No. 1 (No. 141560). 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

Walters, L.A., 2015. A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Employee Attitudes, Awareness, and Satisfaction with Regard to the University Employee Wellness Program (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Qiu, L., 2017. Trump Claims Undue Credit On an Arsenal. New York Times A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schilling, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Roesner and Aggarwal, 2012; Schilling, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Roesner and Aggarwal, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Whittaker et al., 2007)

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