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]

Corbyn Z 2011 Science education: Research on the reservation Nature 471 25–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pyc M A and Rawson K A 2010 Why testing improves memory: mediator effectiveness hypothesis Science 330 335

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gong Y, Mo C and Fraser S E 2004 Planar cell polarity signalling controls cell division orientation during zebrafish gastrulation Nature 430 689–93

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bostick M, Kim J K, Estève P-O, Clark A, Pradhan S and Jacobsen S E 2007 UHRF1 plays a role in maintaining DNA methylation in mammalian cells Science 317 1760–4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Palaveev P 2012 The Ensemble Practice (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Arnull E and Fox D 2016 Cultural Perspectives on Youth Justice: Connecting Theory, Policy and International Practice (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ciraulo F and Sambin G 2008 Finiteness in a Minimalist Foundation Types for Proofs and Programs: International Conference, TYPES 2007, Cividale des Friuli, Italy, May 2-5, 2007 Revised Selected Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed M Miculan, I Scagnetto and F Honsell (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 51–68

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]

Luntz S 2017 Ancient Monkey Blood Found Fossilized In Amber 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

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Government Accountability Office 1974 Assessment of the Work Incentive Program in Washington State (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]

Nomberg R I 2009 Understanding interest group strategies: A case study of civic leaders collaborating with local government Doctoral dissertation (Washington, DC: George Washington 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]

Brantley B 2016 Diverting, but No Need to Stop the Presses New York Times C1

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