How to format your references using the International Journal of Remote Sensing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Remote Sensing. 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	Download the output style file
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

Fuyuno, Ichiko. 2011. “Japan: Will the Sun Set on Kampo?” Nature 480 (7378): S96.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kofman, A. G., and G. Kurizki. 2000. “Acceleration of Quantum Decay Processes by Frequent Observations.” Nature 405 (6786): 546–550.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hay Burgess, Deborah C., Jeffrey Wasserman, and Carol A. Dahl. 2006. “Global Health Diagnostics.” Nature 444 Suppl 1 (November): 1–2.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sinn, H., B. Glorieux, L. Hennet, A. Alatas, M. Hu, E. E. Alp, F. J. Bermejo, D. L. Price, and M-L Saboungi. 2003. “Microscopic Dynamics of Liquid Aluminum Oxide.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5615): 2047–2049.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Audibert, Pierre. 2013. Mathematics for Informatics and Computer Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

de la Fuente, Marcelo S. 2014. Origin, Evolution and Biogeographic History of South American Turtles. Edited by Juliana Sterli and Ignacio Maniel. Springer Earth System Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Formenti, Enrico. 2013. “A Survey on M-Asynchronous Cellular Automata.” In Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems: 19th International Workshop, AUTOMATA 2013, Gießen, Germany, September 17-19, 2013. Proceedings, edited by Jarkko Kari, Martin Kutrib, and Andreas Malcher, 46–66. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To Scientists Who Invented Blue LED.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/nobel-prize-physics-awarded-scientists-who-invented-blue-led/.

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. 2013. Transportation Infrastructure: Limited Improvement in Bridge Conditions over the Past Decade, but Financial Challenges Remain. GAO-13-713T. Washington, DC: 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

Flores, David. 2014. “The EastSide Café: A Liberated Learning Zone.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Wagner, James. 2017. “Baseball; Mets’ Wright Has Another Operation.” New York Times, October 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Fuyuno 2011; Kofman and Kurizki 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kofman and Kurizki 2000)
Three authors: (Hay Burgess, Wasserman, and Dahl 2006)
4 or more authors: (Sinn et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Remote Sensing
Abbreviation	Int. J. Remote Sens.
ISSN (print)	0143-1161
ISSN (online)	1366-5901
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences