How to format your references using the International Journal of Remote Sensing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Remote Sensing. 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

Schwartzberg, P. L. 2001. “Immunology. Tampering with the Immune System.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5528): 228–229.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brandman, Onn, and Tobias Meyer. 2008. “Feedback Loops Shape Cellular Signals in Space and Time.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5900): 390–395.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang, Chun, Charles D. Schwieters, and G. Marius Clore. 2007. “Open-to-Closed Transition in Apo Maltose-Binding Protein Observed by Paramagnetic NMR.” Nature 449 (7165): 1078–1082.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chiorescu, I., Y. Nakamura, C. J. P. M. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij. 2003. “Coherent Quantum Dynamics of a Superconducting Flux Qubit.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5614): 1869–1871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond, Bridgit. 2008. Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Peters, James F., Andrzej Skowron, Hiroshi Sakai, Mihir Kumar Chakraborty, Dominik Slezak, Aboul Ella Hassanien, and William Zhu, eds. 2011. Transactions on Rough Sets XIV. Vol. 6600. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kiselyov, Vladislav V. 2010. “NCAM and the FGF-Receptor.” In Structure and Function of the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule NCAM, edited by Vladimir Berezin, 67–79. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. New York, NY: Springer.

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 International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2017. “Don’t Believe Your Eyes, These Strawberries Are Not Red.” IFLScience, IFLScience, March 1. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/dont-beleive-your-eyes-these-strawberries-are-not-red/.

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. 2010. NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale Projects. GAO-10-227SP. 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

Humphreys, Betsy P. 2013. “The Role of Developmental Screening Practices in Early Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Analysis of All-Payer Claims Data in New Hampshire.” 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

Brantley, Ben. 2017. “Who’s That Knocking on the Door?” New York Times, April 28, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schwartzberg 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Schwartzberg 2001; Brandman and Meyer 2008).

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

Two authors: (Brandman and Meyer 2008)
Three authors: (Tang, Schwieters, and Clore 2007)
4 or more authors: (Chiorescu et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Remote Sensing
Abbreviation	Int. J. Remote Sens.
ISSN (print)	0143-1161
ISSN (online)	1366-5901
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences