How to format your references using the Journal of Environmental Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental 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	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

Viseu, A., 2015. Integration of social science into research is crucial. Nature 525, 291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jaeger, J.-J., Marivaux, L., 2005. Paleontology. Shaking the earliest branches of anthropoid primate evolution. Science 310, 244–245.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greiner, M., Regal, C.A., Jin, D.S., 2003. Emergence of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate from a Fermi gas. Nature 426, 537–540.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Z., Wang, J., Li, M., Sun, K., Liu, C.-J., 2014. Three-dimensional printed acrylonitrile butadiene styrene framework coated with Cu-BTC metal-organic frameworks for the removal of methylene blue. Sci. Rep. 4, 5939.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 1992. Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Topolov, V.Y., 2009. Electromechanical Properties in Composite Based on Ferroelectrics, Engineering Materials and Processes. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Limpouchová, Z., Procházka, K., 2016. Theoretical Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy, in: Procházka, K. (Ed.), Fluorescence Studies of Polymer Containing Systems, Springer Series on Fluorescence. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 91–149.

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 Journal of Environmental Management.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Sonar Images Reveal A WW2 Submarine Sunk By A Nazi Ship [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2015. Farm Program Modernization: Farm Service Agency Needs to Demonstrate the Capacity to Manage IT Initiatives (No. GAO-15-506). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Buckley, M.K., 2012. A study of at-risk students’ perceptions of an online academic credit recovery program in an urban North Texas independent school district (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2008. Court Blocks Plans for New Gas Plant in New Jersey. New York Times B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Viseu, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Jaeger and Marivaux, 2005; Viseu, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jaeger and Marivaux, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Management
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0301-4797
Scope	Environmental Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Waste Management and Disposal General Medicine