Style Request: Ecological Engineering

TammyNewcomer
Hi,

Can you please create a style for Ecological Engineering?
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ecological-engineering/

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Here is a link to their instructions for authors:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/522751/authorinstructions

Here is the relevant text from their instructions for authors:
Reference style
Text: All citations in the text should refer to:
1. Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
2. Two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication;
3. Three or more authors: first author's name followed by 'et al.' and the year of publication.
Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.
Examples: 'as demonstrated (Allan, 2000a, 2000b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1999). Kramer et al.(2010) have recently shown ....'
List: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.

Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2010. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51–59.

Reference to a book:
Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 2000. The Elements of Style, fourth ed. Longman, New York.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 2009. How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith , R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281–304.

Journal abbreviations source
Journal names should be abbreviated according to
Index Medicus journal abbreviations: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html;
List of title word abbreviations: http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php;
CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service): http://www.cas.org/sent.html.

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Ecological Engineering is quite similar in style to Ecology
http://www.esajournals.org/loi/ecol

Here are some differences seen in a documents body:

In Ecological Engineering there is a comma after the authors name (there is no comma in Ecology):
Single author: (Hanski, 1998)
2 authors: (Hanski and Ham, 1998)
3 or more authors:(Hanski et al., 1998)

If there are multiple citations, they are separated by a semicolon (in Ecology they are separated by a comma):
(García et al., 2005; Imfeld et al., 2009; Llorens et al., 2011a)

Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically (in Ecology they are listed first chronologically).

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Here are some differences seen in the References section:

In Ecological Engineering, the References section is called "References" while in Ecology it is called "Literature Cited."

In Ecological Engineering, an author's initials are not separated by a space like they are in Ecology:
Allen, W.C., Hook, P.B., Biederman, J.A., Stein, O.R., 2002. Temperature and wetland plant species effects on wastewater treatment and root zone oxidation. J. Environ. Qual. 31 (3), 1010–1016.

In Ecological Engineering, an author's initials always come after their last name (while in Ecology secondary authors have their initials listed before their name).

In Ecological Engineering, if there is more than 1 author listed the last author does not have a name before their name (while in Ecology there is an "and" before the last author's name).

In Ecological Engineering, there is a comma between the last author's name and the year (while in Ecology there is a period between the last author's name and the year).

In Ecological Engineering, Journal names are abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html;(while in Ecology Journal names are written out in full).

In Ecological Engineering, issue # is listed in parentheses after the volume number and the parentheses are followed by a comma and a space before the page numbers (while in Ecology the volume number is followed by semicolon and then the page numbers).

Thank you very much for your help!
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