How to format your references using the Environmental Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Reviews. 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	Download the output style file
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

Tsai, J.W. 2015. The M.D.-Ph.D. double agent. Science 350(6266): 1434.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dodds, D.R., and Gross, R.A. 2007. Chemistry. Chemicals from biomass. Science 318(5854): 1250–1251.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walsh, J.P., Cohen, W.M., and Arora, A. 2003. Science and the law. Working through the patent problem. Science 299(5609): 1021.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lin, S., Dikler, S., Blincoe, W.D., Ferguson, R.D., Sheridan, R.P., Peng, Z., Conway, D.V., Zawatzky, K., Wang, H., Cernak, T., Davies, I.W., DiRocco, D.A., Sheng, H., Welch, C.J., and Dreher, S.D. 2018. Mapping the dark space of chemical reactions with extended nanomole synthesis and MALDI-TOF MS. Science 361(6402).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pandya, R. 2005. Mobile and Personal Communication Services and Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Long, T.E., Voit, B., and Okay, O. (Editors). 2015. Porous Carbons – Hyperbranched Polymers – Polymer Solvation. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Dahlhaus, D., Hunziker, T., Vassilaras, S., Al-Raweshidy, H., and De Sanctis, M. 2010. PAN-Optimized Air Interfaces. In My personal Adaptive Global NET (MAGNET). Edited by R. Prasad. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht. pp. 135–243.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2017, January 3. World’s Oldest Known Orca Feared Dead. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-oldest-known-orca-feared-dead/ [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. 1992. Federal Research: Lessons Learned From SEMATECH. 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

Magner, K.A. 2010. Evaluation of admissions criteria and practices with regards to successful online learning styles and characteristics. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Walsh, M.W. 2013, January 16. A.I.G. Seeks Approval To File More Bank Suits. New York Times: B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tsai 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dodds and Gross 2007; Tsai 2015).

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

Two authors: (Dodds and Gross 2007)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Reviews
Abbreviation	Environ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1181-8700
ISSN (online)	1208-6053
Scope	General Environmental Science