How to format your references using the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 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

[1]

Arner P 2011 Medicine. Lipases in cachexia Science 333 163–4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kahl B C and Peters G 2007 Microbiology. Mayhem in the lung Science 315 1082–3

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chiou P Y, Ohta A T and Wu M C 2005 Massively parallel manipulation of single cells and microparticles using optical images Nature 436 370–2

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Engler A J, Humbert P O, Wehrle-Haller B and Weaver V M 2009 Multiscale modeling of form and function Science 324 208–12

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dant S 2016 Losing Eden (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Denoeux T and Masson M-H 2012 Belief Functions: Theory and Applications: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Belief Functions, Compiègne, France 9-11 May 2012 vol 164 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kang D, Miyaguni S, Miyagi H, Mitsui I, Ozawa K, Fujita M and Shoji N 2010 Classification of Fatigue Bills Based on K-Means by Using Creases Feature Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence: 7th International Symposium Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing ed A P de Leon F. de Carvalho, S Rodríguez-González, J F D Paz Santana and J M C Rodríguez (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 27–33

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 IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 What Happens When You Mix Molten Lead And Coca-Cola? 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1996 FCC: Access to Telecommunications Equipment and Services by Persons With Disabilities (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

[1]

Liburd-Shaddai J L 2012 The experiences of remedial instructors at one urban community college: A case study Doctoral dissertation (Minneapolis, MN: Capella University)

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

[1]

Gorman J 2017 The Call of the Wild New York Times D1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Abbreviation	IOP Conf. Ser. Earth Environ. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1755-1307
ISSN (online)	1755-1315
Scope