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

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

Sassone-Corsi, P., 2002. Unique chromatin remodeling and transcriptional regulation in spermatogenesis. Science 296, 2176–2178.

A journal article with 2 authors

Irvine, R.F., Denton, R.M., 2011. Cell biology. Pyro-technic control of metabolism. Science 334, 770–771.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chang, M.-M., Zhang, J., Miao, D., 2006. A lamprey from the Cretaceous Jehol biota of China. Nature 441, 972–974.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Strobel, P., Riedel, M., Ristein, J., Ley, L., 2004. Surface transfer doping of diamond. Nature 430, 439–441.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandrasekaran, S., 2016. Health, Safety, and Environmental Management in Offshore and Petroleum Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kleiman, J., Tagawa, M., Kimoto, Y. (Eds.), 2013. Protection of Materials and Structures From the Space Environment, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ishimori, H., Kobayashi, T., Ohki, H., Okada, H., Shimizu, Y., Tanimoto, M., 2012. Δ(3N 2), in: Kobayashi, T., Ohki, H., Okada, H., Shimizu, Y., Tanimoto, M. (Eds.), An Introduction to Non-Abelian Discrete Symmetries for Particle Physicists, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 87–95.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Something Just Put A Dent In One Of Saturn’s Rings [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/something-just-put-a-dent-in-one-of-saturns-rings/ (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. School Meals: USDA Could Improve Verification Process for Program Access (No. GAO-15-634T). 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

Thiagarajan, T.T., 2017. A Simple and Effective Peak-To-Average Power Ratio Reduction Approach Based on Iterative Companding Transform and Filtering Framework of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Signal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Democrats; Clinton Says He Was Told of Draft Aid. New York Times 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sassone-Corsi, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Irvine and Denton, 2011; Sassone-Corsi, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Irvine and Denton, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Strobel et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Sci. (China)
ISSN (print)	1001-0742
Scope	General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering General Medicine