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

Bowerman B (2008) Cell signaling. Wnt moves beyond the canon. Science 320:327–328

A journal article with 2 authors

Katz A, Davis ME (2000) Molecular imprinting of bulk, microporous silica. Nature 403:286–289

A journal article with 3 authors

Kleckner N, Zickler D, Witz G (2013) Molecular biology. Chromosome capture brings it all together. Science 342:940–941

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Croll DA, Maron JL, Estes JA, et al (2005) Introduced predators transform subarctic islands from grassland to tundra. Science 307:1959–1961

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackenzie B, Njikizana T, Coetsee D, et al (2014) 2014 Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Clauss-Ehlers CS (ed) (2010) Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Buck M (2014) Patient Treatment. In: Beckers D, Buck M (eds) PNF in Practice: An Illustrated Guide. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 53–61

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 (2017) Scientists To Hunt For Planets In Our Nearest Star System With Funding For New Instrument. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-to-hunt-for-planets-in-our-nearest-star-system-with-funding-for-new-instrument/. 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 (1998) Surface Transportation: Issues Associated With Pipeline Regulation by the Surface Transportation Board. 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

Szurley JC (2010) The use of edge detection techniques to analyze thoracoabdominal movement and infer breathing volume. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Mallozzi VM (2017) She’s 98. He’s 94. They Met at the Gym. New York Times ST10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowerman 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Katz and Davis 2000; Bowerman 2008).

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

Two authors: (Katz and Davis 2000)
Three or more authors: (Croll et al. 2005)

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