How to format your references using the Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Remote Sensing Applications: Society 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

Weaver, R.L., 2005. Geophysics. Information from seismic noise. Science 307, 1568–1569.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jernvall, J., Fortelius, M., 2002. Common mammals drive the evolutionary increase of hypsodonty in the Neogene. Nature 417, 538–540.

A journal article with 3 authors

Behrens, T.E.J., Hunt, L.T., Rushworth, M.F.S., 2009. The computation of social behavior. Science 324, 1160–1164.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Y., Gao, Q., Lin, Z., Zhang, T., Xu, J., Tan, Y., Tian, W., Jiang, L., 2014. Constructing free standing metal organic framework MIL-53 membrane based on anodized aluminum oxide precursor. Sci. Rep. 4, 4947.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Donham, K.J., Thelin, A., 2016. Agricultural Medicine. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Premeaux, E., 2011. Arduino Projects to Save the World. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, F., Agrawal, G., Jin, R., 2008. Query Planning for Searching Inter-dependent Deep-Web Databases, in: Ludäscher, B., Mamoulis, N. (Eds.), Scientific and Statistical Database Management: 20th International Conference, SSDBM 2008, Hong Kong, China, July 9-11, 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 24–41.

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 Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Move Over Milky Way, Elliptical Galaxies Are The Most Habitable In The Cosmos [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/move-over-milky-way-elliptical-galaxies-are-most-habitable-cosmos/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Department of Education Grant Award (No. HRD-93-8R). 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

Yalof, B., 2012. Marshaling Resources: A Classic Grounded Theory Study of Online Learners (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2010. Cities in Debt Turn to States, Adding Strain. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weaver, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Jernvall and Fortelius, 2002; Weaver, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Jernvall and Fortelius, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment
Abbreviation	Remote Sens. Appl. Soc. Environ.
ISSN (print)	2352-9385
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