How to format your references using the Environmental Education Research citation style

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

Bergman, Lucy. 2005. “Damned If You Don’t.” Nature 435 (7044): 1002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knobel, Robert G., and Andrew N. Cleland. 2003. “Nanometre-Scale Displacement Sensing Using a Single Electron Transistor.” Nature 424 (6946): 291–293.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen, Aron J., Paula Mori-Sánchez, and Weitao Yang. 2008. “Insights into Current Limitations of Density Functional Theory.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5890): 792–794.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hirota, Kouji, Tomoichiro Miyoshi, Kazuto Kugou, Charles S. Hoffman, Takehiko Shibata, and Kunihiro Ohta. 2008. “Stepwise Chromatin Remodelling by a Cascade of Transcription Initiation of Non-Coding RNAs.” Nature 456 (7218): 130–134.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prydie, David, and Isobel Hewitt. 2015. Practical Physiotherapy for Small Animal Practice. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Frost, Susan C., and Robert McKenna, eds. 2014. Carbonic Anhydrase: Mechanism, Regulation, Links to Disease, and Industrial Applications. Vol. 75. Subcellular Biochemistry. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Silano, Marco, Emilio Warschauer Gentile, Gabriele Marinozzi, Giuseppe Cerno, and Antonello Trecca. 2012. “Ileoscopy in Coeliac Disease.” In Ileoscopy: Technique, Diagnosis, and Clinical Applications, edited by Antonello Trecca, 31–33. Milano: Springer.

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 Education Research.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2015. “One-Third Of All Natural World Heritage Sites Under Threat From Resource Extraction Activity.” IFLScience, IFLScience, October 1.

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. 1978. Greater Coordination and a More Effective Policy Needed for International Telecommunications Facilities. CED-78-87. Washington, DC: 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

Seip, Nicole. 2009. “A One Day Training on the Human Papillomavirus for Foster Youth Receiving Independent Living Services: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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, George. 2016. “A Hockey Luminary Glowed With Modesty.” New York Times, June 11, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bergman 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bergman 2005; Knobel and Cleland 2003).

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

Two authors: (Knobel and Cleland 2003)
Three authors: (Cohen, Mori-Sánchez, and Yang 2008)
4 or more authors: (Hirota et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Education Research
Abbreviation	Environ. Educ. Res.
ISSN (print)	1350-4622
ISSN (online)	1469-5871
Scope	Education