How to format your references using the Environmental Values citation style

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

Schrag, D.P. 2000. ‘Of ice and elephants’. Nature 404 (6773): 23–24

A journal article with 2 authors

Devanna, P., and Vernes, S.C. 2014. ‘A direct molecular link between the autism candidate gene RORa and the schizophrenia candidate MIR137’. Scientific reports 4: 3994

A journal article with 3 authors

Spurný, P., Oberst, J., and Heinlein, D. 2003. ‘Photographic observations of Neuschwanstein, a second meteorite from the orbit of the Príbram chondrite’. Nature 423 (6936): 151–153

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tatem, A.J., Guerra, C.A., Atkinson, P.M., and Hay, S.I. 2004. ‘Athletics: momentous sprint at the 2156 Olympics?’ Nature 431 (7008): 525

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arteaga, R., and Hyland, J. (2013). Pivot. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Athanas, P., Pnevmatikatos, D., and Sklavos, N. eds. (2013). Embedded Systems Design with FPGAs. Springer: New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Vu, T.T., Tran, G.B., and Pham, S.B. 2014 ‘Learning to Simplify Children Stories with Limited Data’. In N.T. Nguyen, B. Attachoo, B. Trawiński and K. Somboonviwat (eds.), Intelligent Information and Database Systems: 6th Asian Conference, ACIIDS 2014, Bangkok, Thailand, April 7-9, 2014, Proceedings, Part I, pp. 31–41. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer International Publishing: Cham.

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 Values.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2017. ‘Alien-Looking Insect Has Its Own Order’IFLScience. Online at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/alien-looking-insect-has-its-own-order/IFLScience. (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. 2005. National Airspace System: Experts’ Views on Improving the U.S. Air Traffic Control Modernization Program. 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

Gunhan-Senol, N.E. 2015. ‘I’m Turkish, I’m Honest...’ I’m Autistic: Perceptions Regarding the Label of Autism. 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

Sulcas, R. 2014. Alla Sizova, Star Kirov Ballerina, 75. New York Times, Dec. 9:B19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schrag, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Schrag, 2000; Devanna and Vernes, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Devanna and Vernes, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tatem et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Values
Abbreviation	Environ. Values
ISSN (print)	0963-2719
Scope	Philosophy General Environmental Science