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

Jones G (2000) Total internal reflection. Nature 403:707

A journal article with 2 authors

Kmita M, Duboule D (2003) Organizing axes in time and space; 25 years of colinear tinkering. Science 301:331–333

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong H, Wen B, Melnik R (2014) Relative importance of grain boundaries and size effects in thermal conductivity of nanocrystalline materials. Sci Rep 4:7037

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Iratni R, Yan Y-T, Chen C, et al (2002) Inhibition of excess nodal signaling during mouse gastrulation by the transcriptional corepressor DRAP1. Science 298:1996–1999

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, et al (2017) Molekularbiologie der Zelle. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Rodríguez-Merchán EC, Rubio-Suárez JC (2014) Complex Fractures of the Limbs: Diagnosis and Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Chemat S, Tomao V, Chemat F (2012) Limonene as Green Solvent for Extraction of Natural Products. In: Mohammad A (ed) Green Solvents I: Properties and Applications in Chemistry. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 175–186

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

Luntz S (2014) 55 Year Old Mystery About The Dark Side Of The Moon Solved. In: IFLScience. 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 (1972) Improved Use of Cargo Space on Ammunition Ships by BetterPlanning. 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

Abrahamian A (2012) Diagnosis and treatment of childhood depression: A resource for pediatricians. 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

Gorman J (2017) Maggot to Blowfly: Ready for Its Close-Up. New York Times D3

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
Scope

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