How to format your references using the Regional Environmental Change citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Regional Environmental Change. 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

Gibson DR (2012) Nuclear deterrence: decisions at the brink. Nature 487:27–29

A journal article with 2 authors

Després J-P, Lemieux I (2006) Abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome. Nature 444:881–887

A journal article with 3 authors

Gnone G, Moriconi T, Gambini G (2006) Sleep behaviour: activity and sleep in dolphins. Nature 441:E10-1; discussion E11

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tukiainen T, Villani A-C, Yen A, et al (2018) Corrigendum: Landscape of X chromosome inactivation across human tissues. Nature 555:274

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henriksen RN (2015) Scale Invariance. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Chakrabarti A (ed) (2015) ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 1: Theory, Research Methodology, Aesthetics, Human Factors and Education. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Campadelli P, Casiraghi E (2005) Pruning the Nodule Candidate Set in Postero Anterior Chest Radiographs. In: Apolloni B, Marinaro M, Tagliaferri R (eds) Biological and Artificial Intelligence Environments: 15th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN VIETRI 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 37–43

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 Regional Environmental Change.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) This Lake In India Is Catching On Fire Because It Is So Polluted. 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 (1992) Federal Research: Assessment of the Financial Audit for SEMATECH’s Activities in 1990. 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

Alnuaimi AN (2017) The Outside-In Method for Sustainable Design Within the Built Environment Spatial Layers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Rowan J (2016) A Less Than Honorable Policy. New York Times A23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gibson 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Després and Lemieux 2006; Gibson 2012).

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

Two authors: (Després and Lemieux 2006)
Three or more authors: (Tukiainen et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Regional Environmental Change
Abbreviation	Reg. Environ. Change
ISSN (print)	1436-3798
ISSN (online)	1436-378X
Scope	Global and Planetary Change