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

Lewis, R. The Hard Cell. Nature 2007, 447, 748–749.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dickinson, J.L.; Koenig, W.D. Ecology and Evolution. Desperately Seeking Similarity. Science 2003, 300, 1887–1889.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hermans, T.M.; Frauenrath, H.; Stellacci, F. Materials Science. Droplets out of Equilibrium. Science 2013, 341, 243–244.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gerrits, T.; Van Den Berg, H.A.M.; Hohlfeld, J.; Bär, L.; Rasing, T. Ultrafast Precessional Magnetization Reversal by Picosecond Magnetic Field Pulse Shaping. Nature 2002, 418, 509–512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armstrong, H.A.; Brasier, M.D. Microfossils; Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA USA, 2004; ISBN 9781118685440.

An edited book

Selected Works of Terry Speed; Dudoit, S., Ed.; Selected Works in Probability and Statistics; Springer: New York, NY, 2012; ISBN 9781461413462.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, W.; Cai, W.; Cui, B.; Wang, M. Synthetic Evaluation Method of Electronic Visual Display Terminal Visual Performance Based on the Letter Search Task. In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: 7th International Conference, VAMR 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings; Shumaker, R., Lackey, S., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 30–38 ISBN 9783319210667.

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

Luntz, S. Climate Change Could Shut Down Atlantic Current, Cause Britain to Freeze Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-warming-could-shut-down-atlantic-current-cause-britain-to-freeze/ (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 NASA’s Customer Satisfaction Measurements; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1997;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Briseno, A.R. Improving School Performance through Family Involvement: A Grant Project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

Johnson, G. In Every Breath, a Cancer Risk? New York Times 2016, D2.

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