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

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

Sambles, J. R. 2015. “Optics. Structured Photons Take It Slow.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 347 (6224): 828.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rout, Marnie E., and Ragan M. Callaway. 2009. “Plant Science. An Invasive Plant Paradox.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5928): 734–735.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hull, Pincelli M., Simon A. F. Darroch, and Douglas H. Erwin. 2015. “Rarity in Mass Extinctions and the Future of Ecosystems.” Nature 528 (7582): 345–351.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Abaci, Hasan Erbil, Yu-I Shen, Scott Tan, and Sharon Gerecht. 2014. “Recapitulating Physiological and Pathological Shear Stress and Oxygen to Model Vasculature in Health and Disease.” Scientific Reports 4 (May): 4951.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinn, Joseph F. 2013. Dementia. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Kole, Chittaranjan, ed. 2011. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Temperate Fruits. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rauscher, Andreas. 2013. “Scoring Play – Soundtracks and Video Game Genres.” In Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance, edited by Peter Moormann, 93–105. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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 Planning and Management.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Manure From Antibiotic-Free Cows Still Contributing To Resistance.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/manure-antibiotic-free-cows-still-contributing-resistance/.

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. 1980. U.S. General Accounting Office Strategic Plan for Administrative ADP Systems, 1981-85. 092315. 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

Wizda, Lorraine L. 2010. “A Case Study of Online Peer Coaching of Consultant Communication Skill Development.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Hollander, Sophia. 2000. “From the Ruins of Sarajevo to Stardom at Princeton.” New York Times, April 5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sambles 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Sambles 2015; Rout and Callaway 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rout and Callaway 2009)
Three authors: (Hull, Darroch, and Erwin 2015)
4 or more authors: (Abaci et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Plan. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0964-0568
ISSN (online)	1360-0559
Scope	Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes General Environmental Science Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Water Science and Technology Geography, Planning and Development