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

de Boer, Yvo. 2010. “Copenhagen Shows We Need Caution in Cancún.” Nature 468 (7323): 477.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marone, Chris, and Eliza Richardson. 2006. “Geophysics. Do Earthquakes Rupture Piece by Piece or All Together?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5794): 1748–1749.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qiu, X. H., G. V. Nazin, and W. Ho. 2003. “Vibrationally Resolved Fluorescence Excited with Submolecular Precision.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5606): 542–546.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pokroy, Boaz, Sung H. Kang, L. Mahadevan, and Joanna Aizenberg. 2009. “Self-Organization of a Mesoscale Bristle into Ordered, Hierarchical Helical Assemblies.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5911): 237–240.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinlan, Joseph, and Jackie VanderBrug. 2016. Gender Lens Investing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Farzaneh, Masoud, ed. 2008. Atmospheric Icing of Power Networks. 1st ed. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Araújo, Vítor, and Maria José Pacifico. 2010. “Robustness on the Whole Ambient Space.” In Three-Dimensional Flows, edited by Maria José Pacifico, 99–121. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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, Danielle. 2017. “Found: ‘Lost’ Forests Covering An Area Two-Thirds The Size Of Australia.” IFLScience. 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

Government Accountability Office. 1996. Highway Fund Audit. AIMD-97-14R. 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

Simmons, Christopher. 2008. “Correlates and Predictors of Cognitive Complexity among Counseling and Social Work Students in Graduate Training Programs.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Yablonsky, Linda. 2011. “Imps of the Perverse.” New York Times, September 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Boer 2010).
This sentence cites two references (de Boer 2010; Marone and Richardson 2006).

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

Two authors: (Marone and Richardson 2006)
Three authors: (Qiu, Nazin, and Ho 2003)
4 or more authors: (Pokroy et al. 2009)

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