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

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

Mustelin T. 2006. Immunology. Restless T cells sniff and go. Science. 313(5795):1902–1903.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerszten RE, Wang TJ. 2008. The search for new cardiovascular biomarkers. Nature. 451(7181):949–952.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blumenstock J, Cadamuro G, On R. 2015. Predicting poverty and wealth from mobile phone metadata. Science. 350(6264):1073–1076.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Raaijmakers MHGP, Mukherjee S, Guo S, Zhang S, Kobayashi T, Schoonmaker JA, Ebert BL, Al-Shahrour F, Hasserjian RP, Scadden EO, et al. 2010. Bone progenitor dysfunction induces myelodysplasia and secondary leukaemia. Nature. 464(7290):852–857.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ham BM. 2011. Proteomics of Biological Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Buttazzo G. 2009. Optimal Urban Networks via Mass Transportation. Pratelli A, Stepanov E, Solimini S, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Boeyens JCA. 2013. Covalent Interaction. In: Boeyens JCA, Comba P, editors. Electronic Structure and Number Theory: Bohr’s Boldest Dream. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 93–135.

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 Integrative Environmental Sciences.

Blog post

Hale T. 2017. Nazi Submarine Wreck Immortalized In Cinema Found In Atlantic Ocean. 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

Government Accountability Office. 1972. Cost-Benefit Analysis Used in Support of the Space Shuttle Program. 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

Bailey KM. 2017. A Phenomenological Study of How Biblical Spiritual Disciplines Influence Women’s Character and Leadership Practices in Christian Faith-based Institutions in Higher Education in North America [Doctoral dissertation]. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Vecsey G. 2016. Project Turns to Architect It Knows Well. New York Times.:B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mustelin 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Mustelin 2006; Gerszten and Wang 2008).

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

Two authors: (Gerszten and Wang 2008)
Three or more authors: (Raaijmakers et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Integr. Environ. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1943-815X
ISSN (online)	1943-8168
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment General Environmental Science Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health