How to format your references using the Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. 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

Berendsen, H. J. (2001). Bioinformatics. Reality simulation--observe while it happens. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5550), 2304–2305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Halfar, J., & Fujita, R. M. (2007). Ecology. Danger of deep-sea mining. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5827), 987.

A journal article with 3 authors

MacLehose, L., McKee, M., & Weinberg, J. (2002). Responding to the challenge of communicable disease in Europe. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5562), 2047–2050.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kakazu, E., Kondo, Y., Kogure, T., Ninomiya, M., Kimura, O., Ueno, Y., & Shimosegawa, T. (2013). Plasma amino acids imbalance in cirrhotic patients disturbs the tricarboxylic acid cycle of dendritic cell. Scientific Reports, 3, 3459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Norwitz, E. R., Belfort, M. A., Saade, G. R., & Miller, H. (2010). Obstetric Clinical Algorithms: Management and Evidence. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Prieto, V. G. (Ed.). (2015). Precision Molecular Pathology of Dermatologic Diseases (Vol. 9). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Klijs, J., Peerlings, J., Steijaert, T., & Heijman, W. (2016). Regionalising Input-Output Tables: Comparison of Four Location Quotient Methods. In Á. Matias, P. Nijkamp, & J. Romão (Eds.), Impact Assessment in Tourism Economics (pp. 43–65). Springer International Publishing.

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 Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, November 24). The Social Status of Monkeys Alters Their Immune Response. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-social-status-of-monkeys-alters-their-immune-response/

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. (2006). Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Improved Planning and Acquisition Strategies Can Help Address Operational Challenges (GAO-06-610T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moore, C. (2017). Seasonal Temperature Reconstruction for Northeastern Siberia during the Late Pleistocene from High-Resolution Oxygen Isotope Measurements Across Fossil Wood [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, November 11). Induct Steinbrenner? Let’s Think About This. New York Times, B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Berendsen, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Berendsen, 2001; Halfar & Fujita, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Halfar & Fujita, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Kakazu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture
ISSN (print)	1752-4032
ISSN (online)	1752-4040
Scope	Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law