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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Studies and 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Mace R (2009) Anthropology. On becoming modern. Science 324:1280–1281

A journal article with 2 authors

Manukyan M, Singh PB (2014) Epigenome rejuvenation: HP1β mobility as a measure of pluripotent and senescent chromatin ground states. Sci Rep 4:4789

A journal article with 3 authors

Yonezawa H, Aoki T, Furusawa A (2004) Demonstration of a quantum teleportation network for continuous variables. Nature 431:430–433

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Griffith EM, Paytan A, Caldeira K, et al (2008) A dynamic marine calcium cycle during the past 28 million years. Science 322:1671–1674

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cayuela Valencia R (2013) The Future of the Chemical Industry by 2050. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Thomopoulos S, Birman V, Genin GM (eds) (2013) Structural Interfaces and Attachments in Biology. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Garber PA, Porter LM (2010) The Ecology of Exudate Production and Exudate Feeding in Saguinus and Callimico. In: Burrows AM, Nash LT (eds) The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates. Springer, New York, NY, pp 89–108

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 Studies and Sciences.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Using HIV To Cut And Paste The Human Genome. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2010) Telecommunications: The Proposed Performance Rights Act Would Result in Additional Costs for Broadcast Radio Stations and Additional Revenue for Record Companies, Musicians, and Performers. 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

Dunn LK (2017) Hiring manager’s consideration process for ex-offender job applicants: A grounded theory study. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Grynbaum MM, Ember S, Savage C (2017) Trump’s Urging That Comey Jail Reporters Is Denounced as an ‘Act of Intimidation.’ New York Times A13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mace 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Mace 2009; Manukyan and Singh 2014).

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

Two authors: (Manukyan and Singh 2014)
Three or more authors: (Griffith et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Stud. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2190-6483
ISSN (online)	2190-6491
Scope	General Environmental Science Geography, Planning and Development