How to format your references using the Environmental Engineering Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Engineering Science (EES). 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

Dickson JAD. Fossil Echinoderms as Monitor of the Mg/Ca Ratio of Phanerozoic Oceans. Science 2002;298(5596):1222–1224.

A journal article with 2 authors

Overpeck J and Udall B. Climate Change. Dry Times Ahead. Science 2010;328(5986):1642–1643.

A journal article with 3 authors

Makovicky PJ, Apesteguía S and Agnolín FL. The Earliest Dromaeosaurid Theropod from South America. Nature 2005;437(7061):1007–1011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Middey S, Rivero P, Meyers D, et al. Polarity Compensation in Ultra-Thin Films of Complex Oxides: The Case of a Perovskite Nickelate. Sci Rep 2014;4:6819.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cretu O, Stewart R and Berends T. Risk Management for Design and Construction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2011.

An edited book

Martínez-Avendaño RA. An Introduction to Operators on the Hardy-Hilbert Space. (Rosenthal P. ed). Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer: New York, NY; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Amato G, Falchi F, Rabitti F, et al. Some Theoretical and Experimental Observations on Permutation Spaces and Similarity Search. In: Similarity Search and Applications: 7th International Conference, SISAP 2014, Los Cabos, Mexico, October 29-31, 2014. Proceedings. (Traina AJM, Traina C, and Cordeiro RLF. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2014; pp. 37–49.

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 Environmental Engineering Science.

Blog post

Davis J. Researchers Create DNA “Tape Recorder” To Track Individual Cell’s Development. IFLScience; 2016. [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. Executive Guide: Measuring Performance and Demonstrating Results of Information Technology Investments. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wen J. Moving Office Document Processing into the Cloud. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 2012.

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

Kelly S. Children’s Books;The Wonderful World of Dahl. New York Times 1996;733.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickson, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dickson, 2002; Overpeck and Udall, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Overpeck and Udall, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Middey et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Engineering Science
ISSN (print)	1092-8758
ISSN (online)	1557-9018
Scope