How to format your references using the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment citation style

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

Apkarian, V. A. (2006). Chemistry. A pixellated window on chemistry in solids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5794), 1747–1748.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keinan, A., & Clark, A. G. (2012). Recent explosive human population growth has resulted in an excess of rare genetic variants. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6082), 740–743.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lenton, T. M., Schellnhuber, H. J., & Szathmáry, E. (2004). Climbing the co-evolution ladder. Nature, 431(7011), 913.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lin, Y.-J., Compton, R. L., Jiménez-García, K., Porto, J. V., & Spielman, I. B. (2009). Synthetic magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms. Nature, 462(7273), 628–632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henden, J. (2011). Beating Combat Stress. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rintala, R. J., Pakarinen, M., & Wester, T. (Eds.). (2016). Current Concepts of Intestinal Failure. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Um-e-Ghazia, Masood, R., Shibli, M. A., & Bilal, M. (2012). Usage Control Model Specification in XACML Policy Language. In A. Cortesi, N. Chaki, K. Saeed, & S. Wierzchoń (Eds.), Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management: 11th IFIP TC 8 International Conference, CISIM 2012, Venice, Italy, September 26-28, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 68–79). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Monitoring and Assessment.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, July 12). Hordes Of Planets And Failed Stars Found In The Orion Nebula. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hordes-of-planets-and-failed-stars-found-in-the-orion-nebula/. 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. (1978). The Education of the New Public Executive (No. 095393). 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

Blackwell, P. K. (2017). Timbre Fantasy: An Analysis on Coloristic Choices in John Corigliano’s Etude Fantasy (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

Kelly, H. (2016, June 1). Evolving. New York Times, p. BR17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Apkarian 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Apkarian 2006; Keinan and Clark 2012).

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

Two authors: (Keinan and Clark 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Abbreviation	Environ. Monit. Assess.
ISSN (print)	0167-6369
ISSN (online)	1573-2959
Scope	General Environmental Science Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Pollution General Medicine