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

Mervis, J., 2000. TEACHER TRAINING: How to Produce Better Math and Science Teachers. Science 289, 1454–1455.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pfeiffer, B.E., Foster, D.J., 2015. PLACE CELLS. Autoassociative dynamics in the generation of sequences of hippocampal place cells. Science 349, 180–183.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furuya, T., Kamlet, A.S., Ritter, T., 2011. Catalysis for fluorination and trifluoromethylation. Nature 473, 470–477.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Beck, M.R., Morgan, E.A., Strand, S.S., Woolsey, T.A., 2006. Mentoring. Volunteers bring passion to science outreach. Science 314, 1246–1247.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kowalick, T.M., 2004. Fatal Exit. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wierzbicki, A.P., Nakamori, Y. (Eds.), 2007. Creative Environments: Issues of Creativity Support for the Knowledge Civilization Age, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrario, B., 2013. Uniqueness and Absolute Continuity for Semilinear SPDE’s, in: Dalang, R.C., Dozzi, M., Russo, F. (Eds.), Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications VII: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, May 2011. Springer, Basel, pp. 85–94.

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. Blood Donors In Sweden Get A Text Whenever They Save A Life [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1980. Oversight of Federally Sponsored Research and Development (No. 113733). 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

Pederson, H.M., 2012. Decreasing blame and building therapeutic alliance: Clarifying central change processes in functional family therapy (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Clarey, C., 2016. Wawrinka Solves Familiar Riddle. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Mervis, 2000; Pfeiffer and Foster, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Pfeiffer and Foster, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Beck et al., 2006)

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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