How to format your references using the Environments citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environments. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Solow, A.R. Global Warming: A Call for Peace on Climate and Conflict. Nature 2013, 497, 179–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yoshida, N.; Kanda, J. Geochemistry. Tracking the Fukushima Radionuclides. Science 2012, 336, 1115–1116.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoeppner, D.J.; Hengartner, M.O.; Schnabel, R. Engulfment Genes Cooperate with Ced-3 to Promote Cell Death in Caenorhabditis Elegans. Nature 2001, 412, 202–206.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Donald, P.F.; Sanderson, F.J.; Burfield, I.J.; Bierman, S.M.; Gregory, R.D.; Waliczky, Z. International Conservation Policy Delivers Benefits for Birds in Europe. Science 2007, 317, 810–813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kulkarni, S.; Harman, G. An Elementary Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory: Kulkarni/Statistical Learning Theory; Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011; ISBN 9781118023471.

An edited book

Structural Connections for Lightweight Metallic Structures; Moreira, P.M.G.P., Silva, L.F.M. da, Castro, P.M.S.T. de, Eds.; Advanced Structured Materials; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 8; ISBN 9783642181863.

A chapter in an edited book

Haney, K. Improvisation in the Dance of Life: The Microcosm and Macrocosm. In Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm; Tymieniecka, A.-T., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2006; pp. 97–111 ISBN 9781402041143.

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 Environments.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. Getting Serious About Funny: Psychologists See Humor As A Character Strength Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/getting-serious-about-funny-psychologists-see-humor-as-a-character-strength/ (accessed on 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 James Webb Space Telescope: Project Meeting Commitments but Current Technical, Cost, and Schedule Challenges Could Affect Continued Progress; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Wei, C.-S. Towards Brain Decoding for Real-World Drowsiness Detection. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, 2017.

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. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Admiral Convicted In Sub Deaths. New York Times 2004, A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Environments
ISSN (online)	2076-3298
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