How to format your references using the European Journal of Sustainable Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Sustainable Development. 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

Ferrini-Mundy, J. (2013). Science education. Driven by diversity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6130), 278.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cepko, C., & Punzo, C. (2015). Cell metabolism: Sugar for sight. Nature, 522(7557), 428–429.

A journal article with 3 authors

Collins, F. S., Wilder, E. L., & Zerhouni, E. (2014). Funding transdisciplinary research. NIH Roadmap/Common Fund at 10 years. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6194), 274–276.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zang, H., Yan, L., Li, M., He, L., Gai, Z., Ivanov, I., Wang, M., Chiang, L., Urbas, A., & Hu, B. (2013). Magneto-dielectric effects induced by optically-generated intermolecular charge-transfer states in organic semiconducting materials. Scientific Reports, 3, 2812.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bays, D. H. (2011). A New History of Christianity in China. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Verma, R. S., & Bonavida, B. (Eds.). (2015). Resistance to Immunotoxins in Cancer Therapy (Vol. 6). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Neema, M., Dandamudi, V. S. R., Arora, A., Stankiewicz, J., & Bakshi, R. (2007). T1 Black Holes and Gray Matter Damage. In M. Filippi, M. Rovaris, & G. Comi (Eds.), Neurodegeneration in Multiple Sclerosis (pp. 37–45). Springer.

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 European Journal of Sustainable Development.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, March 4). Now For Some Good News: Regular Sex Benefits Your Mental Health, Too. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/now-for-some-good-news-regular-sex-benefits-your-mental-health-too/

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. (2010). Aviation Safety: Preliminary Information on Aircraft Icing and Winter Operations (GAO-10-441T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bathon, J. M. (2008). Examining the characteristics of school leaders and of local schools where Indiana educational leadership preparation programs place their graduates [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, June 27). Justices Uphold Basic Right To Choose Defense Lawyers. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ferrini-Mundy, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Cepko & Punzo, 2015; Ferrini-Mundy, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Cepko & Punzo, 2015)
Three authors: (Collins et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Zang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Sustainable Development
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Sustain. Dev.
ISSN (print)	2239-5938
ISSN (online)	2239-6101
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