How to format your references using the Environmental Research Communications citation style

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

[1]

Sartorius N 2010 Short-lived campaigns are not enough Nature 468 163–5

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Nathanson N and Fine P 2002 Virology. Poliomyelitis eradication--a dangerous endgame Science 296 269–70

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Winkler W, Nahvi A and Breaker R R 2002 Thiamine derivatives bind messenger RNAs directly to regulate bacterial gene expression Nature 419 952–6

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Parikshak N N, Swarup V, Belgard T G, Irimia M, Ramaswami G, Gandal M J, Hartl C, Leppa V, de la Torre Ubieta L, Huang J, Lowe J K, Blencowe B J, Horvath S and Geschwind D H 2018 Author Correction: Genome-wide changes in lncRNA, splicing, and regional gene expression patterns in autism Nature 560 E30

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Jones G F 2010 Gravity-Driven Water Flow in Networks (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Ehrig H, Engels G, Kreowski H-J and Rozenberg G 2012 Graph Transformations: 6th International Conference, ICGT 2012, Bremen, Germany, September 24-29, 2012. Proceedings vol 7562 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Morgado C, Leitão T and Cunha J C 2014 An Approach for Characterizing Group-Based Interactive Environments Distributed Systems and Applications of Information Filtering and Retrieval: DART 2012: Revised and Invited Papers Studies in Computational Intelligence ed C Lai, A Giuliani and G Semeraro (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 79–100

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 Research Communications.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti C 2017 Someone Has Created The World’s First Adult “Service” Droid And It’s Terrifying IFLScience

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1981 Doctoral Programs in Public Administration: Some Basic Data and a Few Comments (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

[1]

Hitchins M G 2017 Domain Disparity: Informing the Debate between Domain-General and Domain-Specific Information Processing in Working Memory Doctoral dissertation (Washington, DC: George Washington University)

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

[1]

Vizard M M 1999 In the Region /Westchester; Avalon Joins New Roc City for New Rochelle Revival New York Times 1111

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Research Communications
ISSN (online)	2515-7620
Scope