How to format your references using the Environment International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environment International. 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 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

van Ommen, T., 2015. Palaeoclimate: Northern push for the bipolar see-saw. Nature 520, 630–631.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rauch, S.L., Carlezon, W.A., Jr, 2013. Neuroscience. Illuminating the neural circuitry of compulsive behaviors. Science 340, 1174–1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heil, M., Rattke, J., Boland, W., 2005. Postsecretory hydrolysis of nectar sucrose and specialization in ant/plant mutualism. Science 308, 560–563.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Garcia-Perez, J.L., Morell, M., Scheys, J.O., Kulpa, D.A., Morell, S., Carter, C.C., Hammer, G.D., Collins, K.L., O’Shea, K.S., Menendez, P., Moran, J.V., 2010. Epigenetic silencing of engineered L1 retrotransposition events in human embryonic carcinoma cells. Nature 466, 769–773.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lincoln, N.B., Kneebone, I.I., Macniven, J.A.B., Morris, R.C., 2011. Psychological Management of Stroke. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Reid, J., 2013. JavaScript Programmer’s Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Natvig, T., Elster, A.C., 2010. Run-Time Analysis and Instrumentation for Communication Overlap Potential, in: Keller, R., Gabriel, E., Resch, M., Dongarra, J. (Eds.), Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface: 17th European MPI Users’ Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2010, Stuttgart, Germany, September 12-15, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 42–49.

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 Environment International.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Could Hurricane Patricia Be A Harbinger Of Storms In A Warming Climate? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/could-hurricane-patricia-be-harbinger-storms-warming-climate/ (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, 1979. Federal Research Grants: Maintaining Public Accountability Without Inhibiting Creative Research (No. 094378). 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

Reehal, G., 2012. Designing Low Power and High Performance Network-on-Chip Communication Architectures for Nanometer SoCs (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Alone Among Starters: Healthy and Dominant. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van Ommen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rauch and Carlezon, 2013; van Ommen, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rauch and Carlezon, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Garcia-Perez et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environment International
Abbreviation	Environ. Int.
ISSN (print)	0160-4120
Scope	General Environmental Science