How to format your references using the Environmental Geochemistry and Health citation style

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

Bankaitis, V. A. (2002). Cell biology. Slick recruitment to the Golgi. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5553), 290–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dai, X., & Huang, N. (2014). Numerical simulation of drifting snow sublimation in the saltation layer. Scientific reports, 4, 6611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Capozza, R., Barel, I., & Urbakh, M. (2013). Probing and tuning frictional aging at the nanoscale. Scientific reports, 3, 1896.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Blosser, T. R., Yang, J. G., Stone, M. D., Narlikar, G. J., & Zhuang, X. (2009). Dynamics of nucleosome remodelling by individual ACF complexes. Nature, 462(7276), 1022–1027.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cragg, P. J. (2006). A Practical Guide to Supramolecular Chemistry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pavlov, A. (2006). Uniform Output Regulation of Nonlinear Systems: A Convergent Dynamics Approach. (N. van de Wouw & H. Nijmeijer, Eds.). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Graziottin, A., & Murina, F. (2011). Vulvodinia: che cosa dicono le donne? In F. Murina (Ed.), Vulvodinia: Strategie di diagnosi e cura (pp. 29–36). 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 Geochemistry and Health.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 12). Viruses May Play Vital Role In Brain Function. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/viruses-may-play-vital-role-brain-function/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1999). Commercial Maritime Industry: Updated Information on Federal Assessments (No. RCED-99-260). 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

Etchberger, J. F. (2008). The cis-regulatory logic of gustatory neuron development in Caenorhabditis elegans (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Fisher, I., & Hubbard, B. (2017, February 14). Awash in Turmoil, Arab World Leaves Two-State Goal Adrift. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bankaitis 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bankaitis 2002; Dai and Huang 2014).

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

Two authors: (Dai and Huang 2014)
Three or more authors: (Blosser et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Geochemistry and Health
Abbreviation	Environ. Geochem. Health
ISSN (print)	0269-4042
ISSN (online)	1573-2983
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering Water Science and Technology General Medicine