How to format your references using the Exposure and Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Exposure and Health. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Hodson R (2015) Prostate cancer: 4 big questions. Nature 528:S137

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuwahara H, Gao X (2013) Stochastic effects as a force to increase the complexity of signaling networks. Sci Rep 3:2297

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaneko Y, Nimmerjahn F, Ravetch JV (2006) Anti-inflammatory activity of immunoglobulin G resulting from Fc sialylation. Science 313:670–673

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Xu Y-T, Wang J, Yin R, et al (2014) Genetic polymorphisms in Glutathione S-transferase Omega (GSTO) and cancer risk: a meta-analysis of 20 studies. Sci Rep 4:6578

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer A, Legeard B (2016) Model-Based Testing Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Greiner A (2015) Public Debt, Sustainability and Economic Growth: Theory and Empirics. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bui QT, Pham QD, Deville Y (2014) Solving the Quorumcast Routing Problem as a Mixed Integer Program. In: Simonis H (ed) Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming: 11th International Conference, CPAIOR 2014, Cork, Ireland, May 19-23, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–54

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 Exposure and Health.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Supergiant Gas Field In The Mediterranean Doubles Size Record. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/supergiant-gas-field-mediterranean-doubles-size-record/. 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 (1992) FAA Budget: Key Issues Need to Be Addressed. 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

Boudreau PD (2015) Orthogonality in Natural Products Workflows. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Barron J (2016) Owner of Brooklyn Brownstone Sees Herself Caught in Airbnb Crossfire. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hodson 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kuwahara and Gao 2013; Hodson 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kuwahara and Gao 2013)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Exposure and Health
Abbreviation	Expo. Health
ISSN (print)	2451-9766
ISSN (online)	2451-9685
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution Water Science and Technology Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health