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

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

Russo, E. 2003. Victims of success. Nature 422(6929): 354–355.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levine, A.J., and A.M. Puzio-Kuter. 2010. The control of the metabolic switch in cancers by oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. Science 330(6009): 1340–1344.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz, W., J.C. Cuaresma, and W. Sanderson. 2008. Economics. The demography of educational attainment and economic growth. Science 319(5866): 1047–1048.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Russ, W.P., D.M. Lowery, P. Mishra, M.B. Yaffe, and R. Ranganathan. 2005. Natural-like function in artificial WW domains. Nature 437(7058): 579–583.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larrieu, N., and A. Varet. 2014. Rapid Prototyping of Software for Avionics Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chong, N.-Y., and Y.-J. Cho, editors. 2016. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: The 12th International Symposium. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Brimblecombe, P. 2011. Environment and Architectural Stone. In: Siegesmund, S. and Snethlage, R., editors, Stone in Architecture: Properties, Durability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. p. 317–346

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 Quality.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Natural Cancer Remedies: Sorting Fact From Fiction. 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. 1977. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Should Provide the Congress with More Information on the Pioneer Venus Project. 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

Ghadimian, V. 2017. Renewable Energy Marketplace.

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

Lavin, L. 2017. I Sang in New York. New York Times: AR5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russo, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Russo, 2003; Levine and Puzio-Kuter, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Levine and Puzio-Kuter, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Russ et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Quality
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Qual.
ISSN (print)	0047-2425
ISSN (online)	1537-2537
Scope	Environmental Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Pollution Waste Management and Disposal Water Science and Technology