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

Nye, M. J. (2002). Portraits of science. “The most versatile physicist of his generation.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5565), 49–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiens, D. A., & Snider, N. O. (2001). Repeating deep earthquakes: evidence for fault reactivation at great depth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5534), 1463–1466.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parker, H. G., Kruglyak, L., & Ostrander, E. A. (2006). Molecular genetics: DNA analysis of a putative dog clone. Nature, 440(7081), E1-2.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Miller, S. E., Collins, B. M., McCoy, A. J., Robinson, M. S., & Owen, D. J. (2007). A SNARE-adaptor interaction is a new mode of cargo recognition in clathrin-coated vesicles. Nature, 450(7169), 570–574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller, M. A. (2005). Internet Technologies Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gioeli, D. (Ed.). (2011). Targeted Therapies: Mechanisms of Resistance. Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Chiang, H.-D., & Wang, T. (2014). Neighboring Local Optimal Solutions and Its Applications. In P. M. Pardalos & T. M. Rassias (Eds.), Mathematics Without Boundaries: Surveys in Interdisciplinary Research (pp. 117–138). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, April 16). Promising Antibody That Neutralises HIV Shows Why We Shouldn’t Give Up On A Vaccine. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1999). Federal Research: Peer Review Practices at Federal Science Agencies Vary (RCED-99-99). 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

Wolzinger, R. (2010). Strengthening Career and Technical Education in the California Community College System during the financial and labor market crisis [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

Atkinson, S., & Davey, M. (2017, June 14). Manslaughter Is Charge for 5 In Flint Crisis. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nye, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Nye, 2002; Wiens & Snider, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wiens & Snider, 2001)
Three authors: (Parker et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Miller et al., 2007)

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

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