How to format your references using the Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Management. 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

Gladstone, J. C. (2014). Ultraluminous X-ray sources: Small field with a large impact. Nature, 514(7521), 171–172.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schneider, R., & Persson, S. (2015). PLANT SCIENCE. Another brick in the wall. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6257), 156–157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canfield, D. E., Poulton, S. W., & Narbonne, G. M. (2007). Late-Neoproterozoic deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5808), 92–95.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pilania, G., Wang, C., Jiang, X., Rajasekaran, S., & Ramprasad, R. (2013). Accelerating materials property predictions using machine learning. Scientific Reports, 3, 2810.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang, F., Klette, R., & Scheibe, K. (2008). Panoramic Imaging. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shahid, S. A., & Ahmed, M. (Eds.). (2014). Environmental Cost and Face of Agriculture in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Fostering Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hidalgo-Herrero, M., Ortega-Mallén, Y., & Rubio, F. (2007). Comparing Alternative Evaluation Strategies for Stream-Based Parallel Functional Languages. In Z. Horváth, V. Zsók, & A. Butterfield (Eds.), Implementation and Application of Functional Languages: 18th International Symposium, IFL 2006, Budapest, Hungary, September 4-6, 2006, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 55–72). 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 Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Management.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, October 3). Big-Headed Ants Grow Even Bigger When the Competition is Fierce. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/big-headed-ants-grow-even-bigger-when-competition-fierce/

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. (1974). Procurement Equipment for New York Postal Data Center (B-180235). 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

Bryant, M. G. (2017). The Development of the Massive Open Online Course Virtual Learning Environment Scale (MVLE) and Model to Measure Satisfaction of MOOC Online Learning Courses in Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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. (2007, October 1). Justices, Already Split, Commence Work on a Polarizing New Docket. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gladstone, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gladstone, 2014; Schneider & Persson, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schneider & Persson, 2015)
Three authors: (Canfield et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Pilania et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Management
Abbreviation	Greenh. Gas Meas. Manag.
ISSN (print)	2043-0779
ISSN (online)	2043-0787
Scope	Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Geography, Planning and Development