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

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

Evans NR. 2000. ASTRONOMY: Don’t We Already Know Everything About Polaris? Science. 289(5486):1888–1889.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ehrenfreund P, Foing BH. 2010. Astronomy. Fullerenes and cosmic carbon. Science. 329(5996):1159–1160.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dickinson DJ, Nelson WJ, Weis WI. 2011. A polarized epithelium organized by beta- and alpha-catenin predates cadherin and metazoan origins. Science. 331(6022):1336–1339.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Kato H, Okazaki K, Iida T, Nakayama J-I, Murakami Y, Urano T. 2013. Spt6 prevents transcription-coupled loss of posttranslationally modified histone H3. Sci Rep. 3:2186.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell DL. 2006. Practical Wastewater Treatment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Braibant S. 2009. Particelle e interazioni fondamentali: Il mondo delle particelle. Giacomelli G, Spurio M, editors. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu TY, Guo N, Teh CY, Hay JXW. 2013. Challenges and Recent Developments of Sonochemical Processes. In: Guo N, Teh CY, Hay JXW, editors. Advances in Ultrasound Technology for Environmental Remediation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; p. 109–120.

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 Integrative Environmental Sciences.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2015. Possible Cure Found For Rare “Stone Man” Disease That Turns Muscle To Bone. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/possible-cure-found-rare-stone-man-disease-turns-muscle-bone/

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. Human Services: Federal Approval and Funding Processes for States’ Information Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Nasiriamini S. 2010. The need for adaptive network application architectures [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Feeney K. 2010. Cafeteria Fare, Korean-Style. New York Times.:NJ8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Evans 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Evans 2000; Ehrenfreund and Foing 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ehrenfreund and Foing 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kato et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Integr. Environ. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1943-815X
ISSN (online)	1943-8168
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment General Environmental Science Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health