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

Huntington, H.P., 2011. Arctic science: The local perspective. Nature 478, 182–183.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hamanaka, R.B., Chandel, N.S., 2011. Cell biology. Warburg effect and redox balance. Science 334, 1219–1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, H., Stein, B.E., McHaffie, J.G., 2003. Opposing basal ganglia processes shape midbrain visuomotor activity bilaterally. Nature 423, 982–986.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

He, Y., Sun, G., Koga, K., Xu, L., 2014. Electrostatic field-exposed water in nanotube at constant axial pressure. Sci. Rep. 4, 6596.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cotarca, L., Eckert, H., 2005. Phosgenations - A Handbook. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Fuchs, A., Nijman, E., Priebsch, H.-H. (Eds.), 2016. Automotive NVH Technology, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Daithankar, J., Pandit, T., 2014. TMS Selection Framework, in: Pandit, T. (Ed.), Transportation Management with SAP TM 9.0: A Hands-On Guide to Configuring, Implementing, and Optimizing SAP TM. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 31–36.

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. Amazing New Find Brings Us Closer To Cloning A Woolly Mammoth [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1991. FAA Staffing: Better Strategy Needed to Ensure Facilities Are Properly Staffed (No. T-RCED-92-8). 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

McNeil, J.N., 2017. “I noticed something wrong”: Lived experiences of women of color who faced a protracted journey to diagnosis with lupus (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

Yablonsky, L., 2009. Exhibit A-List. New York Times M226.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Huntington, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hamanaka and Chandel, 2011; Huntington, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hamanaka and Chandel, 2011)
Three or more authors: (He et al., 2014)

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

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