How to format your references using the Global Environmental Change citation style

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

Johns-Krull, C.M., 2014. Astrophysics: Secret ingredient exposed. Nature 514, 571–572.

A journal article with 2 authors

Novas, F.E., Pol, D., 2005. New evidence on deinonychosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 433, 858–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo, Y., Yang, Y., Chen, Z., 2014. Self-tuning wireless power transmission scheme based on on-line scattering parameters measurement and two-side power matching. Sci. Rep. 4, 4332.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, X.-S., Yang, G.-X., Jiang, H., Liu, W.-J., Ding, H.-S., 2013. Mass production of chemicals from biomass-derived oil by directly atmospheric distillation coupled with co-pyrolysis. Sci. Rep. 3, 1120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuehni, R.G., 2012. Color. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Uden, L., Heričko, M., Ting, I.-H. (Eds.), 2015. Knowledge Management in Organizations: 10th International Conference, KMO 2015, Maribor, Slovenia, August 24-28, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Juter, K., Sriraman, B., 2011. Does High Achieving in Mathematics = Gifted and/or Creative in Mathematics?, in: Sriraman, B., Lee, K.H. (Eds.), The Elements of Creativity and Giftedness in Mathematics. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 45–65.

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 Global Environmental Change.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Microbes Turn Pee Into Electricity [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/microbes-turn-pee-electricity/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Telecommunications Readiness Critical, Yet Overall Status Largely Unknown (No. T-AIMD-98-212). 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

Schroeder, M., 2017. Investigating the Learnability of a Rogue Grammar: Null Subject Parameter Resetting in Second Language Acquisition (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Crow, K., 2002. Go West, They Said. And So Should the 7 Train. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Johns-Krull, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Johns-Krull, 2014; Novas and Pol, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Novas and Pol, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Environmental Change
Abbreviation	Glob. Environ. Change
ISSN (print)	0959-3780
Scope	Ecology Global and Planetary Change Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development