How to format your references using the Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration. 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

Greene M (2008) Policy. A force for peace in the Middle East. Science 322:1192

A journal article with 2 authors

Poole A, Penny D (2007) Eukaryote evolution: engulfed by speculation. Nature 447:913

A journal article with 3 authors

Jedema FJ, Filip AT, van Wees BJ (2001) Electrical spin injection and accumulation at room temperature in an all-metal mesoscopic spin valve. Nature 410:345–348

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jo Y, Jung K, Kim J, et al (2014) Resistance switching mode transformation in SrRuO3/Cr-doped SrZrO3/Pt frameworks via a thermally activated Ti out-diffusion process. Sci Rep 4:7354

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keiser G (2006) FTTX Concepts and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ishii H, Kudo K, Nakayama T, Ueno N (2015) Electronic Processes in Organic Electronics: Bridging Nanostructure, Electronic States and Device Properties. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Keeble AH, Maté MJ, Kleanthous C (2005) HNH Endonucleases. In: Belfort M, Wood DW, Stoddard BL, Derbyshire V (eds) Homing Endonucleases and Inteins. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–65

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 Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Ants Are Capable of Changing Their Priorities. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-are-capable-changing-their-priorities/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1981) Better Management Needed in Social Security Administration’s Toll-Free Telephone Service to the Public. 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

Lee E (2017) Assessing the Well-Being Koreans and Korean Americans: Psychometric Validation Study for a Multidimensional Assessment of Well-Being. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Tavernise S, Kovaleski SF, Turkewitz J (2017) ‘I Wish I Could Tell You He Was a Miserable Bastard.’ New York Times A1

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	Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration
ISSN (print)	2365-6433
ISSN (online)	2365-7448
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