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

Brown KR (2014) Physics Probing the electron. Science 343:255–256

A journal article with 2 authors

Faden RR, Karron RA (2012) Public health and biosecurity. The obligation to prevent the next dual-use controversy. Science 335:802–804

A journal article with 3 authors

Francis NJ, Kingston RE, Woodcock CL (2004) Chromatin compaction by a polycomb group protein complex. Science 306:1574–1577

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang Z, Klipfell E, Bennett BJ, et al (2011) Gut flora metabolism of phosphatidylcholine promotes cardiovascular disease. Nature 472:57–63

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonem JM (2011) Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Charney N (ed) (2016) Art Crime: Terrorists, Tomb Raiders, Forgers and Thieves. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Deutsch M (2015) A Framework for Thinking About Oppression and Conflict. In: Deutsch M (ed) Morton Deutsch: A Pioneer in Developing Peace Psychology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 71–104

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

Carpineti A (2015) Can Aspirin Stop Cancer Returning? In: IFLScience. 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 (1994) Advance Sheets: Volume 73, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. 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

Manzanares ME (2012) Effect of a preoperative multidisciplinary education program on weight management after bariatric surgery. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Yee V, Rosenberg E (2015) Fatal Brooklyn Apartment Fire Was Arson, Police Say. New York Times A25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brown 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Faden and Karron 2012; Brown 2014).

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

Two authors: (Faden and Karron 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2011)

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