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

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

Fenton, M.B., 2011. Ecology. The world through a bat’s ear. Science 333, 528–529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kropman, M.F., Bakker, H.J., 2001. Dynamics of water molecules in aqueous solvation shells. Science 291, 2118–2120.

A journal article with 3 authors

Komatsu, K., Murata, M., Murata, Y., 2005. Encapsulation of molecular hydrogen in fullerene C60 by organic synthesis. Science 307, 238–240.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Watters, T.R., Leuschen, C.J., Plaut, J.J., Picardi, G., Safaeinili, A., Clifford, S.M., Farrell, W.M., Ivanov, A.B., Phillips, R.J., Stofan, E.R., 2006. MARSIS radar sounder evidence of buried basins in the northern lowlands of Mars. Nature 444, 905–908.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prazeres, D.M.F., 2011. Plasmid Biopharmaceuticals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hu, W. (Ed.), 2011. Electronics and Signal Processing: Selected Papers from the 2011 International Conference on Electric and Electronics (EEIC 2011) in Nanchang, China on June 20–22, 2011, Volume 1, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Avin, C., Borokhovich, M., Haeupler, B., Lotker, Z., 2013. Self-adjusting Grid Networks to Minimize Expected Path Length, in: Moscibroda, T., Rescigno, A.A. (Eds.), Structural Information and Communication Complexity: 20th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2013, Ischia, Italy, July 1-3, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 36–54.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Unlike A Rolling Stone: Is Science Really Better Than Journalism At Self-Correction? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1995. USDA Telecommunications: Better Management and Network Planning Could Save Millions (No. AIMD-95-203). 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

Miles, C.S., 2015. Elicitation of a Program’s Behaviors (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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., 2000. Allowing the Math-Challenged To Savor the Coffee at Tip Time. 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 (Fenton, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Fenton, 2011; Kropman and Bakker, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Kropman and Bakker, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Watters et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Sci. (China)
ISSN (print)	1001-0742
Scope	General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering General Medicine