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

Snieder, R., 2000. The tube worm turns. Nature 406, 939.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fry, C.J., Peterson, C.L., 2002. Transcription. Unlocking the gates to gene expression. Science 295, 1847–1848.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, J.-Y., Tang, C.Y., Huo, F., 2014. Fabrication of porous matrix membrane (PMM) using metal-organic framework as green template for water treatment. Sci. Rep. 4, 3740.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schopf, J.W., Kudryavtsev, A.B., Agresti, D.G., Wdowiak, T.J., Czaja, A.D., 2002. Laser--Raman imagery of Earth’s earliest fossils. Nature 416, 73–76.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, A.S., 2006. ISO 14000 Environmental Management Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Martínez-San Miguel, Y., Sifuentes-Jáuregui, B., Belausteguigoitia, M. (Eds.), 2016. Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought: Historical and Institutional Trajectories, New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Neidig, J., 2013. Hardware Requirements for Digital Product Memories, in: Wahlster, W. (Ed.), SemProM: Foundations of Semantic Product Memories for the Internet of Things, Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 59–72.

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

Hamilton, K., 2016. Why Insights Of Nobel Physicists Could Revolutionize 21st-Century Computing [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/why-insights-of-nobel-physicists-could-revolutionize-21st-century-computing/ (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, 2008. Chemical Assessments: EPA’s New Assessment Process Will Further Limit the Productivity and Credibility of Its Integrated Risk Information System (No. GAO-08-810T). 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

Horton, C.R., 2013. Financial crisis within the nonprofit sector (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2016. These Superheros Come With Lipstick. New York Times ST8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Snieder, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Fry and Peterson, 2002; Snieder, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Fry and Peterson, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Schopf et al., 2002)

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