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

Elderfield, H., 2002. Climate change. Carbonate mysteries. Science 296, 1618–1621.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pascual-Leone, A., Walsh, V., 2001. Fast backprojections from the motion to the primary visual area necessary for visual awareness. Science 292, 510–512.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murphy, R.A., Mondragón, E., Murphy, V.A., 2008. Rule learning by rats. Science 319, 1849–1851.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bleichert, F., Gagnon, K.T., Brown, B.A., 2nd, Maxwell, E.S., Leschziner, A.E., Unger, V.M., Baserga, S.J., 2009. A dimeric structure for archaeal box C/D small ribonucleoproteins. Science 325, 1384–1387.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chow, S.-C., Liu, J.-P., 2005. Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Concepts and Methodologies, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cao, J., Mao, K., Cambria, E., Man, Z., Toh, K.-A. (Eds.), 2015. Proceedings of ELM-2014 Volume 2: Applications, Proceedings in Adaptation, Learning and Optimization. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kikuchi, M., Azumi, M., 2015. Collisional Transport in Tokamak, in: Azumi, M. (Ed.), Frontiers in Fusion Research II: Introduction to Modern Tokamak Physics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 63–114.

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

Andrew, D., 2016. Is Fukushima Still Safe After The Latest Earthquake? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/is-fukushima-still-safe-after-the-latest-earthquake/ (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, 1996. Certification of New Airlines: Department of Transportation Has Taken Action to Improve Its Certification Process (No. RCED-96-8). 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

Cisewski, J., 2012. Generalized fiducial inference for mixed linear models (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Hodara, S., 2013. At Hopper’s Home, Legally This Time. New York Times NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elderfield, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Elderfield, 2002; Pascual-Leone and Walsh, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Pascual-Leone and Walsh, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Bleichert et al., 2009)

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