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

Sita, L.R., 2009. Chemistry. Tin takes ethylene on--and off. Science 325, 1631–1632.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, C.-Y., Bard, A.J., 2002. Pressure-induced insulator conductor transition in a photoconducting organic liquid-crystal film. Nature 418, 162–164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kovács, Á.M., Téglás, E., Endress, A.D., 2010. The social sense: susceptibility to others’ beliefs in human infants and adults. Science 330, 1830–1834.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hou, J.G., Jinlong, Y., Haiqian, W., Qunxiang, L., Changgan, Z., Lanfeng, Y., Bing, W., Chen, D.M., Qingshi, Z., 2001. Topology of two-dimensional C60 domains. Nature 409, 304–305.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yan, S.Y., 2012. Computational Number Theory and Modern Cryptography. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Fusionopolis Walk, Singapore.

An edited book

Pointcheval, D., Nitaj, A., Rachidi, T. (Eds.), 2016. Progress in Cryptology – AFRICACRYPT 2016: 8th International Conference on Cryptology in Africa, Fes, Morocco, April 13-15, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Holmes, W.H., Rinaman, W.C., 2014. Introduction to Statistical Inference, in: Rinaman, W.C. (Ed.), Statistical Literacy for Clinical Practitioners. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 127–147.

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

Davis, J., 2017. Earliest Evidence Of Human Impact On Geological Processes Is 11,500 Years Old [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, 1995. Inspectors General: Alleged Misconduct by NASA Inspector General (No. OSI-95-9). 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

Hawkins, S.H., 2017. Lung CT Radiomics: An Overview of Using Images as Data (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Poniewozik, J., 2017. Rap Lyrics Lost in Translation. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sita, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Liu and Bard, 2002; Sita, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Bard, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hou et al., 2001)

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