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

Wiersma, D. The Smallest Random Laser. Nature 2000, 406, 132–133.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, L.; Dunn, B. Batteries. Opening the Window for Aqueous Electrolytes. Science 2015, 350, 918.

A journal article with 3 authors

Waelti, P.; Dickinson, A.; Schultz, W. Dopamine Responses Comply with Basic Assumptions of Formal Learning Theory. Nature 2001, 412, 43–48.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Smith, P.A.; Koehler, M.F.T.; Girgis, H.S.; Yan, D.; Chen, Y.; Chen, Y.; Crawford, J.J.; Durk, M.R.; Higuchi, R.I.; Kang, J.; et al. Optimized Arylomycins Are a New Class of Gram-Negative Antibiotics. Nature 2018, 561, 189–194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allan, D.; Bragg, N. 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging Design and Evolution; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2012; ISBN 9781118164327.

An edited book

Mental Health and Pain: Somatic and Psychiatric Components of Pain in Mental Health; Marchand, S., Saravane, D., Gaumond, I., Eds.; Springer: Paris, 2014; ISBN 9782817804132.

A chapter in an edited book

Tani, S.; Narazaki, H.; Ueda, Y.; Nakamura, Y.; Hino, T.; Ohyama, S.; Tomari, S.; Yokota, C.; Ohboshi, N.; Minematsu, K.; et al. A Web-Based Stroke Education Application for Older Elementary Schoolchildren Focusing on the FAST Message. In Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2015; Chen, Y.-W., Torro, C., Tanaka, S., Howlett, R.J., C. Jain, L., Eds.; Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 37–48 ISBN 9783319230238.

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

Fang, J. How Leatherback Sea Turtles Keep Their Muscles Warm In Frigid Waters (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 Tax Abatement; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1993;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Slotterback, D. Parent Partner Program and Organization (3P-O) Parents Mentoring Parents in Child Welfare: A Grant-Writing Project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Erlanger, S.; Anderson, C. Assange Rape Inquiry Is Dropped, but His Legal Troubles Remain Daunting. New York Times 2017, A7.

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