How to format your references using the Remote Sensing citation style

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

Glassmeier, K.-H. Planetary Science. Magnetic Twisters on Mercury. Science 2009, 324, 597–598.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shen, Y.; Ho, L.C. The Diversity of Quasars Unified by Accretion and Orientation. Nature 2014, 513, 210–213.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chang, M.-M.; Zhang, J.; Miao, D. A Lamprey from the Cretaceous Jehol Biota of China. Nature 2006, 441, 972–974.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiang, W.; Yun, D.; Saleh, L.; Barr, E.W.; Xing, G.; Hoffart, L.M.; Maslak, M.-A.; Krebs, C.; Bollinger, J.M., Jr A Manganese(IV)/Iron(III) Cofactor in Chlamydia Trachomatis Ribonucleotide Reductase. Science 2007, 316, 1188–1191.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Owen, J.S.; Fiedler-Kelly, J. Introduction to Population Pharmacokinetic / Pharmacodynamic Analysis with Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, New Jersey, 2014; ISBN 9781118784860.

An edited book

Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition: 8th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop, GbRPR 2011, Münster, Germany, May 18-20, 2011. Proceedings; Jiang, X., Ferrer, M., Torsello, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; Vol. 6658; ISBN 9783642208430.

A chapter in an edited book

Schreurs, M.A. The German Energiewende in a European Context. In Germany’s Energy Transition: A Comparative Perspective; Hager, C., Stefes, C.H., Eds.; Palgrave Macmillan US: New York, NY, 2016; pp. 91–110 ISBN 9781137442871.

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.

Blog post

Andrew, E. We Can Turn CO2 In The Air Into New Materials – But Don’t Expect That To Stop Climate Change (accessed on 30 October 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 Intellectual Property: Patent Examination and Copyright Office Issues; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Rudoy, S.I. Developing a Model for Understanding Mindfulness as a Potential Intervention for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 2014.

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

Wagner, J. Cespedes Displays Healthy Swing in Return, but Legs Are Rarely Tested. New York Times 2017, SP5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Remote Sensing
Abbreviation	Remote Sens. (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2072-4292
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences