How to format your references using the Ecopsychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ecopsychology (ECO). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bobrow M. Funders Must Encourage Scientists to Share. Nature 2015;522(7555):129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ranen MC and Jacobsen SB. Barium Isotopes in Chondritic Meteorites: Implications for Planetary Reservoir Models. Science 2006;314(5800):809–812.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berné O, Marcelino N and Cernicharo J. Waves on the Surface of the Orion Molecular Cloud. Nature 2010;466(7309):947–949.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang Y, Tang T-T, Girit C, et al. Direct Observation of a Widely Tunable Bandgap in Bilayer Graphene. Nature 2009;459(7248):820–823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bass F. Guide to the Census. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2013.

An edited book

Prince A, (ed). Mucosal Immunology of Acute Bacterial Pneumonia. Springer: New York, NY; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Fischer V and Ruzhansky M. Rockland Operators and Sobolev Spaces. In: Quantization on Nilpotent Lie Groups. (Ruzhansky M. ed). Progress in Mathematics Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2016; pp. 171–269.

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 Ecopsychology.

Blog post

Davis J. GM Crops That Produce Fish Oil Successfully Grown in the Field. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gm-crops-produce-fish-oil-successfully-grown-field/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Sole-Source Contract Awards for Assembly of Radio Communication Systems, AN/GRC-142. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Breska J. Mentoring for Juvenile Gang Members and At-Risk Youth: A Grant Proposal Project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 2013.

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

Kanter J. An Olio of E.U. Rules, Leading to Food Fights. New York Times 2017;B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bobrow, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bobrow, 2015; Ranen and Jacobsen, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Ranen and Jacobsen, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ecopsychology
ISSN (online)	1942-9347
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