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

Miyamoto, K. (2014). Structural model of ubiquitin transfer onto an artificial RING finger as an E3 ligase. Scientific Reports, 4, 6574.

A journal article with 2 authors

Christensen, C. H., & Nørskov, J. K. (2010). Chemistry. Green gold catalysis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5963), 278–279.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamashita, T., Hige, T., & Takahashi, T. (2005). Vesicle endocytosis requires dynamin-dependent GTP hydrolysis at a fast CNS synapse. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5706), 124–127.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yu, Y., Zhang, X. H., Ebersole, B., Ribnicky, D., & Wang, Z. Q. (2013). Bitter melon extract attenuating hepatic steatosis may be mediated by FGF21 and AMPK/Sirt1 signaling in mice. Scientific Reports, 3, 3142.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Desmond, K. K. (2011). Ideas about Art. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Westphal, H., Riegl, B., & Eberli, G. P. (Eds.). (2010). Carbonate Depositional Systems: Assessing Dimensions and Controlling Parameters: The Bahamas, Belize and the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Napier, M. (2009). Making Urban Land Markets Work Better in South African Cities and Towns: Arguing the Basis for Access by the Poor. In S. V. Lall, M. Freire, B. Yuen, R. Rajack, & J.-J. Helluin (Eds.), Urban Land Markets: Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization (pp. 71–97). Springer Netherlands.

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

Davis, J. (2016, October 6). Vast Unique Ecosystems Discovered In The Twilight Zone Off The Coast Of Hawaii. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vast-unique-ecosystems-discovered-in-the-twilight-zone-off-the-coast-of-hawaii/

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. (1992). EOS Data Policy: Questions Remain About U.S. Commercial Access (IMTEC-92-44). 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

Lin, H.-C. (2013). Depression screening in ambulatory care [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Feeney, K. (2010, September 5). Ready-to-Eat for Rosh Hashana. New York Times, NJ14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miyamoto, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Christensen & Nørskov, 2010; Miyamoto, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Christensen & Nørskov, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Yu 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