How to format your references using the Environmental Processes citation style

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

Robinson GE (2004) Genomics. Beyond nature and nurture. Science 304:397–399

A journal article with 2 authors

Butte NF, Ellis KJ (2003) Comment on “Obesity and the environment: where do we go from here?” Science 301:598; author reply 598

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe H, Nebel CE, Shikata S (2009) Isotopic homojunction band engineering from diamond. Science 324:1425–1428

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yoshida H, Bando T, Mito T, et al (2014) An extended steepness model for leg-size determination based on Dachsous/Fat trans-dimer system. Sci Rep 4:4335

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuehni RG (2004) Color. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lovat T (2011) Values Pedagogy and Student Achievement: Contemporary Research Evidence. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Robinson D (2016) Benveniste and the Periperformative Structure of the Pragmeme. In: Allan K, Capone A, Kecskes I (eds) Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 85–104

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 Processes.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Watch This Fascinating Time-Lapse Of Hatching Bees. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-fascinating-time-lapse-hatching-bees/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1994) Pell Grant Costs. 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

Salazar A (2012) Small school, big gains: A case study of urban high school reform. 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 G (2009) Parade of Poor Play. New York Times B15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Butte and Ellis 2003; Robinson 2004).

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

Two authors: (Butte and Ellis 2003)
Three or more authors: (Yoshida et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Processes
Abbreviation	Environ. Process.
ISSN (print)	2198-7491
ISSN (online)	2198-7505
Scope	Environmental Engineering Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Pollution Water Science and Technology