How to format your references using the Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 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

Rabeharisoa, V., 2011. Genome-sequencing anniversary. Socializing genetic diseases. Science 331, 1026–1027.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holme, R., de Viron, O., 2013. Characterization and implications of intradecadal variations in length of day. Nature 499, 202–204.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bruins, H.J., van der Plicht, J., Mazar, A., 2003. 14C dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age chronology, pharaohs, and Hebrew kings. Science 300, 315–318.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Grantham, B.A., Chan, F., Nielsen, K.J., Fox, D.S., Barth, J.A., Huyer, A., Lubchenco, J., Menge, B.A., 2004. Upwelling-driven nearshore hypoxia signals ecosystem and oceanographic changes in the northeast Pacific. Nature 429, 749–754.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saunders, A., Allen, L., 2010. Credit Risk Management in and Out of the Financial Crisis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Villiers, M.M. de, Aramwit, P., Kwon, G.S. (Eds.), 2009. Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Aspects. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Ogryczak, W., 2008. WOWA Enhancement of the Preference Modeling in the Reference Point Method, in: Torra, V., Narukawa, Y. (Eds.), Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence: 5th International Conference, MDAI 2008 Sabadell, Spain, October 30-31, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 38–49.

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 Innovation and Societal Transitions.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. DNA Strands Used To Create Origami Nanobots Inside Cockroaches [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dna-strands-used-create-origami-nanobots-inside-cockroaches/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2005. Electronic Disability Claims Processing: SSA Is Proceeding with Its Accelerated Systems Initiative but Needs to Address Operational Issues (No. GAO-05-97). 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

Moreno, S., 2009. Mother-child relationships: Females behind bars and their children (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hollander, S., 2002. A Princeton Senior Is Setting the Bar Higher. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rabeharisoa, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Holme and de Viron, 2013; Rabeharisoa, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Holme and de Viron, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Grantham et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Abbreviation	Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit.
ISSN (print)	2210-4224
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