How to format your references using the Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. 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 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

[1]

Bird A. Perceptions of epigenetics. Nature. 2007;447(7143):396–398.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Campbell CT, Peden CHF. Chemistry. Oxygen vacancies and catalysis on ceria surfaces. Science. 2005;309(5735):713–714.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Johnson KG, Jackson JBC, Budd AF. Caribbean reef development was independent of coral diversity over 28 million years. Science. 2008;319(5869):1521–1523.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Liu Z, Wang Y, Ai X, et al. Photoregenerative I⁻/I₃⁻ couple as a liquid cathode for proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6795.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Knudsen S. Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Scheiner S, editor. Noncovalent Forces. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Swami NV, Sirsat NB, Holambe PR. Light Fidelity (Li-Fi): In Mobile Communication and Ubiquitous Computing Applications. In: Chakrabarti A, Sharma N, Balas VE, editors. Advances in Computing Applications. Singapore: Springer; 2016. p. 75–85.

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 Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies.

Blog post

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Andrews R. Peculiar Ancient Marine Reptile Reveals Life Evolved Rapidly After 'Great Dying” Apocalypse [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/peculiar-ancient-marine-reptile-reveals-life-evolved-rapidly-after-great-dying/.

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

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Government Accountability Office. Telecommunications: Issues Related to the Structure and Funding of Public Television. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007. Report No.: GAO-07-150. .

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

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Popoveniuc S. A framework for secure mixnet-based electronic voting [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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

[1]

Keith S, Oudens J. Half the Fun Is in Getting There. New York Times. 2016 May 28;TR11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies
Abbreviation	Isotopes Environ. Health Stud.
ISSN (print)	1025-6016
ISSN (online)	1477-2639
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry