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

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

Lynch, Michael. 2015. “Genetics: Feedforward Loop for Diversity.” Nature 523 (7561): 414–416.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu, Leonard, and Ian D. Hickson. 2003. “The Bloom’s Syndrome Helicase Suppresses Crossing over during Homologous Recombination.” Nature 426 (6968): 870–874.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bergmann, Dominique C., Wolfgang Lukowitz, and Chris R. Somerville. 2004. “Stomatal Development and Pattern Controlled by a MAPKK Kinase.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5676): 1494–1497.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wild, Christian, Markus Huettel, Anke Klueter, Stephan G. Kremb, Mohammed Y. M. Rasheed, and Bo B. Jørgensen. 2004. “Coral Mucus Functions as an Energy Carrier and Particle Trap in the Reef Ecosystem.” Nature 428 (6978): 66–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allen, Danielle S. 2012. Why Plato Wrote. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Siddiqui, Manzer H., Mohamed H. Al-Whaibi, and Firoz Mohammad, eds. 2015. Nanotechnology and Plant Sciences: Nanoparticles and Their Impact on Plants. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Petitjean, Michel. 2013. “Spheres Unions and Intersections and Some of Their Applications in Molecular Modeling.” In Distance Geometry: Theory, Methods, and Applications, edited by Antonio Mucherino, Carlile Lavor, Leo Liberti, and Nelson Maculan, 61–83. 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 Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. “Wolf Spotted In Grand Canyon For The First Time In 70 Years.” IFLScience, IFLScience, November 3. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wolf-returns-grand-canyon/.

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. 1982. Budget Authority Rescission Proposals. OGC-82-11. 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

Amodeo, Gabriele A. 2009. “Structural and Biochemical Characterization of the Saccharomyces Cerevisiae AMPK Homolog SNF1.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2016. “Puerto Rico Debt Plan Prioritizes Pensions.” New York Times, February 25, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lynch 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lynch 2015; Wu and Hickson 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wu and Hickson 2003)
Three authors: (Bergmann, Lukowitz, and Somerville 2004)
4 or more authors: (Wild et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Plan. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0964-0568
ISSN (online)	1360-0559
Scope	Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes General Environmental Science Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Water Science and Technology Geography, Planning and Development