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

Dagotto, E., 2001. Superconductivity. The race to beat the cuprates. Science 293, 2410–2411.

A journal article with 2 authors

Umeda, H., Nomoto, K., 2003. First-generation black-hole-forming supernovae and the metal abundance pattern of a very iron-poor star. Nature 422, 871–873.

A journal article with 3 authors

Achlioptas, D., D’Souza, R.M., Spencer, J., 2009. Explosive percolation in random networks. Science 323, 1453–1455.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mavárez, J., Salazar, C.A., Bermingham, E., Salcedo, C., Jiggins, C.D., Linares, M., 2006. Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies. Nature 441, 868–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crichton, R.R., Ward, R.J., 2006. Metal-based Neurodegeneration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

d’Avila Garcez, A.S., 2009. Neural-Symbolic Cognitive Reasoning, Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Feng, Q., Zhao, W., Yu, X., Shi, Y., 2016. Exploration of Integrated Course Project Mode of the Internet of Things Engineering Based on the Relevance Theory, in: Che, W., Han, Q., Wang, H., Jing, W., Peng, S., Lin, J., Sun, G., Song, X., Song, H., Lu, Z. (Eds.), Social Computing: Second International Conference of Young Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICYCSEE 2016, Harbin, China, August 20-22, 2016, Proceedings, Part II, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Singapore, pp. 26–31.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. New Device Could Help Gunshot Victims In Seconds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-device-could-help-gunshot-victims-seconds/ (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, 2002. NASA: Compliance With Cost Limits Cannot Be Verified (No. GAO-02-504R). 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

Boudreau, M.-L., 2014. Chanter en français en Louisiane: Du passé vers le futur (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Go Figure the American League East, Inside and Out. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dagotto, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dagotto, 2001; Umeda and Nomoto, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Umeda and Nomoto, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Mavárez et al., 2006)

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