How to format your references using the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 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]

Hejtmancik J F 2015 Ophthalmology: Cataracts dissolved Nature 523 540–1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mulligan S J and MacVicar B A 2004 Calcium transients in astrocyte endfeet cause cerebrovascular constrictions Nature 431 195–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lehmann E, Brueckner F and Cramer P 2007 Molecular basis of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase II activity Nature 450 445–9

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Lü X-T, Dijkstra F A, Kong D-L, Wang Z-W and Han X-G 2014 Plant nitrogen uptake drives responses of productivity to nitrogen and water addition in a grassland Sci. Rep. 4 4817

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sinzinger S and Jahns J 2005 Microoptics (Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Shvartsman M M A A 2006 Principles of Distributed Systems: 10th International Conference, OPODIS 2006, Bordeaux, France, December 12-15, 2006. Proceedings vol 4305 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gordon J F and Kramm R L 2014 Clinical Trials for IOP-Lowering Devices to Support an FDA Premarket Submission Surgical Innovations in Glaucoma ed J R Samples and I I K Ahmed (New York, NY: Springer) pp 61–6

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 IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S 2017 Humans Are Changing The Planet Hundreds Of Times Faster Than Natural Forces 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 1998 District of Columbia Public Schools: Enrollment Count Still Appears Vulnerable to Errors (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]

Lintott R W 2010 The manipulation of time perception in John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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]

Brantley B 2016 On the Stage, Aim for Special, but Not for Safe New York Times C1

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	IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Abbreviation	IOP Conf. Ser. Earth Environ. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1755-1307
ISSN (online)	1755-1315
Scope