How to format your references using the Journal of Environmental Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Management. 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

Goldston, D., 2009. Budget instructions. Nature 461, 25.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kai, T., Spradling, A., 2004. Differentiating germ cells can revert into functional stem cells in Drosophila melanogaster ovaries. Nature 428, 564–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhong, Y., Zhang, L., Su, D., 2000. Collaborations tailored for bioinformatics projects. Science 290, 2074a.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiang, L., Wang, B., Ji, L., Jiang, H., 2013. 4-D photoacoustic tomography. Sci. Rep. 3, 1113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

English, J.F., 2012. The Global Future of English Studies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Li, Z., 2015. Intelligent Networked Teleoperation Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tao, X., Cui, Q., Xu, X., Zhang, P., 2012. Power Allocation of Group Cell System, in: Cui, Q., Xu, X., Zhang, P. (Eds.), Group Cell Architecture for Cooperative Communications, SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 47–67.

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 Journal of Environmental Management.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Two New Sub-Atomic Particles Discovered at CERN [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/two-new-particles-discovered-worlds-largest-collider/ (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, 2015. Airport Funding: Changes in Aviation Activity Are Reflected in Reduced Capacity Concerns (No. GAO-15-498T). 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

Liu, T.-W.D., 2003. Isolation and Characterization of pco-1, which Encodes a Regulatory Protein that Controls Purine Degradation in Neurospora crassa (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Kelly, C., 2010. The Skipper Is Waiting. New York Times C29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2009; Kai and Spradling, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kai and Spradling, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Xiang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Management
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0301-4797
Scope	Environmental Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Waste Management and Disposal General Medicine