How to format your references using the Population and Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Population and Environment. 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

Dewandre, N. (2002). Women in science. European strategies for promoting women in science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5553), 278–279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crompton, R. H., & Pataky, T. C. (2009). Anthropology. Stepping out. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5918), 1174–1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dewar, J. M., Budzowska, M., & Walter, J. C. (2015). The mechanism of DNA replication termination in vertebrates. Nature, 525(7569), 345–350.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cheng, M., Xie, W., Zong, B., Sun, B., & Qiao, M. (2013). When magnetic catalyst meets magnetic reactor: etherification of FCC light gasoline as an example. Scientific reports, 3, 1973.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov, B. M. (2011). Fundamentals of Ionized Gases. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Wang, X. C. (2015). Water Cycle Management: A New Paradigm of Wastewater Reuse and Safety Control. (C. Zhang, X. Ma, & L. Luo, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rettenmaier, N., & Hienz, G. (2014). Linkages Between Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy. In D. Rutz & R. Janssen (Eds.), Socio-Economic Impacts of Bioenergy Production (pp. 59–80). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Population and Environment.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 19). Promising HIV Therapy So Effective It Could Be Used As A Vaccine. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1979). Organizing the Federal Communications Commission for Greater Management and Regulatory Effectiveness (No. CED-79-107). 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

Conlin, L. D. (2012). Building shared understandings in introductory physics tutorials through risk, repair, conflict & comedy (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Montague, J. (2017, January 11). Door Opens to Hinterlands of Soccer. New York Times, p. B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dewandre 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Crompton and Pataky 2009; Dewandre 2002).

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

Two authors: (Crompton and Pataky 2009)
Three or more authors: (Cheng et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Population and Environment
Abbreviation	Popul. Environ.
ISSN (print)	0199-0039
ISSN (online)	1573-7810
Scope	Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Demography