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

Couzin-Frankel J (2014) The elusive heart fix. Science 345:252–257

A journal article with 2 authors

Blagosklonny MV, Pardee AB (2002) Conceptual biology: unearthing the gems. Nature 416:373

A journal article with 3 authors

Evans WJ, Kozimor SA, Ziller JW (2005) Molecular octa-uranium rings with alternating nitride and azide bridges. Science 309:1835–1838

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Baublitz M, Lane C, Lin H, et al (2014) A Minimal tight-binding model for ferromagnetic canted bilayer manganites. Sci Rep 4:7512

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simpkins CA, Simpkins AM (2011) Zen Meditation in Psychotherapy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Özkaya N (2012) Fundamentals of Biomechanics: Equilibrium, Motion, and Deformation, 3rd ed. 2012. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Lozneanu E, Sanduloviciu M (2008) Cell-like space charge configurations formed by self-organization in laboratory. In: Minai AA, Bar-Yam Y (eds) Unifying Themes in Complex Systems IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–38

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 (2014) Kepler Team Announces Discovery of Earth-Sized Planet in Habitable Zone. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/kepler-team-announces-discovery-earth-sized-planet-habitable-zone/. 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 (1998) Year 2000 Computing: EFT 99 Is Not Expected to Affect Year 2000 Remediation Efforts. 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

Ruby CA (2017) Application of Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) to Remotely Operated Vehicle (Rov) Video Data for Enhanced Geospatial Analysis of Deep Sea Environments. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Walsh MW (2013) Pension Funds Wary as Bankrupt City Goes to Trial. New York Times B1

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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