How to format your references using the Regional Environmental Change citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Regional Environmental Change. 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

Till C (2015) Earth science: Big geochemistry. Nature 523:293–294

A journal article with 2 authors

Das S, Kumar A (2014) Formation and post-formation dynamics of bacterial biofilm streamers as highly viscous liquid jets. Sci Rep 4:7126

A journal article with 3 authors

Jermiin LS, Poladian L, Charleston MA (2005) Evolution. Is the “Big Bang” in animal evolution real? Science 310:1910–1911

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu C, Yang XV, Wu J, et al (2011) Oxysterols direct B-cell migration through EBI2. Nature 475:519–523

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowlinson M (2016) A Practical Guide to the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Xu KS, Reitter D, Lee D, Osgood N (eds) (2016) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling: 9th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2016, Washington, DC, USA, June 28 - July 1, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Barker R, Kasim T (2016) Integrated Reporting: Precursor of a Paradigm Shift in Corporate Reporting? In: Mio C (ed) Integrated Reporting: A New Accounting Disclosure. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 81–108

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 Regional Environmental Change.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Why Volcanoes Erupt. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-volcanoes-erupt/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1977) Secretary of the Senate Accountability as of March 31, 1977. 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

Baggio BG (2008) Integrating social software into blended -learning courses: A Delphi study of instructional -design processes. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Kishkovsky S (2002) Russian Novelist Scoffs at Post-Soviet Leaders. New York Times 114

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Till 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Das and Kumar 2014; Till 2015).

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

Two authors: (Das and Kumar 2014)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Regional Environmental Change
Abbreviation	Reg. Environ. Change
ISSN (print)	1436-3798
ISSN (online)	1436-378X
Scope	Global and Planetary Change