How to format your references using the Remote Sensing of Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Remote Sensing of 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	Download the output style file
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

Goldston, D., 2012. Time to stop relying on things past. Nature 492, 313.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kulkarni, R.N., Kahn, C.R., 2004. Molecular biology. HNFs--linking the liver and pancreatic islets in diabetes. Science 303, 1311–1312.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jewitt, D., Aussel, H., Evans, A., 2001. The size and albedo of the Kuiper-belt object (20000) Varuna. Nature 411, 446–447.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zheng, W., Hanbicki, A.T., Jonker, B.T., Lüpke, G., 2014. Control of magnetic contrast with nonlinear magneto-plasmonics. Sci. Rep. 4, 6191.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abd-El-Barr, M., El-Rewini, H., 2004. Fundamentals of Computer Organization and Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Brinkman, D.B., Holroyd, P.A., Gardner, J.D. (Eds.), 2013. Morphology and Evolution of Turtles, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Wijesinghe, L., Siriwardena, P., Dias, D., 2013. A Wireless Sensor Network for Early Warning of Elephant Intrusions, in: Shaikh, F.K., Chowdhry, B.S., Ammari, H.M., Uqaili, M.A., Shah, A. (Eds.), Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries: First International Conference, WSN4DC, Jamshoro, Pakistan, April 24-26, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 38–50.

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 of Environment.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Weak Gravity Can Be Explained With 10 Million Billion New Particles [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, 1983. [Perspectives on Evaluating Federally Sponsored Research and Development in the United States] (No. 122652). 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

Kilpatrick, R.F., 2010. A World Less Paved (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Troy, T., 2017. How Conservatives Can Find Their Way. New York Times SR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2012; Kulkarni and Kahn, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kulkarni and Kahn, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Remote Sensing of Environment
Abbreviation	Remote Sens. Environ.
ISSN (print)	0034-4257
Scope	Soil Science Computers in Earth Sciences Geology