How to format your references using the Environmental and Ecological Statistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 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

May M (2014) Antibiotics. Nature 509:S1

A journal article with 2 authors

Hetherington AM, Woodward FI (2003) The role of stomata in sensing and driving environmental change. Nature 424:901–908

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma J-B, Ye K, Patel DJ (2004) Structural basis for overhang-specific small interfering RNA recognition by the PAZ domain. Nature 429:318–322

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Smith KD, von Seggern D, Blewitt G, et al (2004) Evidence for deep magma injection beneath Lake Tahoe, Nevada-California. Science 305:1277–1280

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murdoch I, Turpin S, Johnston B, et al (2014) Geriatric Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Cordella M (2014) Behavioural Oncology: Psychological, Communicative, and Social Dimensions. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Pallara O, Froio F, Rinolfi A, Lo Presti D (2007) Assessment of Strength and Deformation of Coarse Grained Soils by Means of Penetration Tests and Laboratory Tests on Undisturbed Samples. In: Ling HI, Callisto L, Leshchinsky D, Koseki J (eds) Soil Stress-Strain Behavior: Measurement, Modeling and Analysis: A Collection of Papers of the Geotechnical Symposium in Rome, March 16–17, 2006. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 201–213

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 Environmental and Ecological Statistics.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Hyperfast Spacecraft Could Be Partly Destroyed By Interstellar Dust En Route To Alpha Centauri. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hyperfast-spacecraft-partly-destroyed-interstellar-dust-en-route-alpha-centauri/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1985) [Request for Opinion Concerning Exchange Agreements Between Patent and Trademark Office and Private Firms]. 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

Johnston JS (2017) Echo in Three Acts: The Lost Historical Subject in (Dis)articulation. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Lyman R (2017) Polish Parliament Acts to Upend Nation’s Courts. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (May 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hetherington and Woodward 2003; May 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hetherington and Woodward 2003)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental and Ecological Statistics
Abbreviation	Environ. Ecol. Stat.
ISSN (print)	1352-8505
ISSN (online)	1573-3009
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty General Environmental Science Statistics and Probability