How to format your references using the Environmental Science and Pollution Research citation style

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

Le Quéré C (2009) Journal club. An oceanographer marvels at the good timing of shrimp. Nature 461:1031

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoekstra HE, Price T (2004) Evolution. Parallel evolution is in the genes. Science 303:1779–1781

A journal article with 3 authors

Jackson DP, Laws PW, Franklin SV (2012) IBI series winner. An inquiry-based curriculum for nonmajors. Science 335:418–419

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Manyala N, Sidis Y, DiTusa JF, et al (2000) Magnetoresistance from quantum interference effects in ferromagnets. Nature 404:581–584

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bilbao S (2005) Wave and Scattering Methods for Numerical Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Sadeghian A, Mendel JM, Tahayori H (eds) (2013) Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems: Theory and Applications. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Deantoni J, Brun C, Caillaud B, et al (2015) Domain Globalization: Using Languages to Support Technical and Social Coordination. In: Combemale B, Cheng BHC, France RB, et al. (eds) Globalizing Domain-Specific Languages: International Dagstuhl Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, October 5-10, 2014, Revised Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 70–87

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 Science and Pollution Research.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Brain-Eating Amoeba Is Hungry For Your Neurotransmitters. In: IFLScience. 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 (2014) Aviation: Impact of Fuel Price Increases on the Aviation Industry. 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

Restrepo E (2009) Eventalizing blackness in Colombia. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Herrman J (2017) Trust Bust. New York Times BR13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Le Quéré 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hoekstra and Price 2004; Le Quéré 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hoekstra and Price 2004)
Three or more authors: (Manyala et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Abbreviation	Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. Int.
ISSN (print)	0944-1344
ISSN (online)	1614-7499
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution General Medicine