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

Sulloway FJ (2007) Psychology. Birth order and intelligence. Science 316:1711–1712

A journal article with 2 authors

Bergink S, Jentsch S (2009) Principles of ubiquitin and SUMO modifications in DNA repair. Nature 458:461–467

A journal article with 3 authors

Usdin M, Guillerm M, Chirac P (2006) Neglected tests for neglected patients. Nature 441:283–284

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wainer I, Prado LF, Khodri M, Otto-Bliesner B (2014) Reconstruction of the South Atlantic Subtropical Dipole index for the past 12,000 years from surface temperature proxy. Sci Rep 4:5291

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goossens F (2015) How to Implement Market Models Using VBA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Guy TV, Karny M, Wolpert D (eds) (2013) Decision Making and Imperfection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Sülün T, Şakar O (2016) Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Partially Edentulous Patients. In: Şakar O (ed) Removable Partial Dentures: A Practitioners’ Manual. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 37–52

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

Luntz S (2014) Groundbreaking New Study Transforms Skin Cells Into Healthy Liver Cells. 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 (1993) Student Testing: Current Extent and Expenditures, With Cost Estimates for a National Examination. 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

Lovejoy LP (2010) On the control of selective attention in the primate superior colliculus. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Crow K (2001) 3-Card Monte Is Vanishing, Just Like Your $50 Bill Did. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sulloway 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Sulloway 2007; Bergink and Jentsch 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bergink and Jentsch 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wainer et al. 2014)

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