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

Bunk S (2002) Teaching science graduates to think business. Nature 417:4–5

A journal article with 2 authors

Siller S, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. steven.siller@zoo.ox.ac.uk (2001) Sexual selection and the maintenance of sex. Nature 411:689–692

A journal article with 3 authors

Pagel M, Atkinson QD, Meade A (2007) Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature 449:717–720

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ruano MA, Lopez-Bonet E, Buxó M, et al (2014) An improved axillary staging system using the OSNA assay does not modify the therapeutic management of breast cancer patients. Sci Rep 4:5743

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bma (2013) Everyday Medical Ethics and Law. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Chakraborty MK, Skowron A, Maiti M, Kar S (eds) (2015) Facets of Uncertainties and Applications: ICFUA, Kolkata, India, December 2013. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Gonzàlez-Alujas MT, Evangelista Masip A (2016) Echocardiography in Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis. In: Habib G (ed) Infective Endocarditis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Imaging, Therapy, and Prevention. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 37–50

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

Fang J (2015) Crabs are Gobbling Up Our Mangrove Restoration Efforts. 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 (1999) Small Business Administration: Enhancements Needed for Loan Monitoring System Benchmark Study. 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

Rakusin LL (2010) Intervening to reduce adolescent substance abuse: A grant proposal. 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

Shpigel B (2016) Taking Twisted Turns. New York Times SP7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bunk 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Siller and Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. steven.siller@zoo.ox.ac.uk 2001; Bunk 2002).

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

Two authors: (Siller and Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. steven.siller@zoo.ox.ac.uk 2001)
Three or more authors: (Ruano 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