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

Stern, Peter. 2012. “Depression. Defeating the Dementors. Introduction.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6103): 67.

A journal article with 2 authors

Janak, Patricia H., and Kay M. Tye. 2015. “From Circuits to Behaviour in the Amygdala.” Nature 517 (7534): 284–292.

A journal article with 3 authors

Friedmann, Theodore, Olivier Rabin, and Mark S. Frankel. 2010. “Ethics. Gene Doping and Sport.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327 (5966): 647–648.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Choi, S. B., C. Wang, D. G. Muench, K. Ozawa, V. R. Franceschi, Y. Wu, and T. W. Okita. 2000. “Messenger RNA Targeting of Rice Seed Storage Proteins to Specific ER Subdomains.” Nature 407 (6805): 765–767.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samuel, G. Robello. 2010. Formulas and Calculations for Drilling Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rosette, Jean J. M. C. H. de la, and Inderbir S. Gill, eds. 2005. Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery in Malignancies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Magerko, Brian, Christopher DeLeon, and Peter Dohogne. 2011. “Digital Improvisational Theatre: Party Quirks.” In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15-17, 2011. Proceedings, edited by Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Stefan Kopp, Stacy Marsella, and Kristinn R. Thórisson, 42–47. 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, Danielle. 2016. “Human Experiments – The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-experiments-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/.

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. 1989. Senate Bill 543: The Job Training Partnership Act Youth Employment Amendments of 1989. T-HRD-89-18. 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

Fister, Tyler W. 2017. “Activating the Art Classroom: Combining Critical Pedagogy, Visual Culture and Socially Engaged Art to Promote Agency amongst High School Students.” 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

Gorman, James. 2016. “When Tickled, Rats Giggle and Leap, Researchers Find.” New York Times, November 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stern 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Stern 2012; Janak and Tye 2015).

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

Two authors: (Janak and Tye 2015)
Three authors: (Friedmann, Rabin, and Frankel 2010)
4 or more authors: (Choi et al. 2000)

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