How to format your references using the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 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

Bosch, X., 2001. Vatican approves use of animal transplants “to benefit humans.” Nature 413, 445.

A journal article with 2 authors

Colton, R.J., Russell, J.N., Jr, 2003. Counterterrorism. Making the world a safer place. Science 299, 1324–1325.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ganem, N.J., Godinho, S.A., Pellman, D., 2009. A mechanism linking extra centrosomes to chromosomal instability. Nature 460, 278–282.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Galloway, J.N., Townsend, A.R., Erisman, J.W., Bekunda, M., Cai, Z., Freney, J.R., Martinelli, L.A., Seitzinger, S.P., Sutton, M.A., 2008. Transformation of the nitrogen cycle: recent trends, questions, and potential solutions. Science 320, 889–892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korn, G.A., 2013. Advanced Dynamic-System Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bruggeman, M., 2007. Pro SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Pan, I., Das, S., 2013. Fractional Order Controller Tuning Using Swarm and Evolutionary Algorithms, in: Das, S. (Ed.), Intelligent Fractional Order Systems and Control: An Introduction, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 87–131.

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 Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Five Cool Ways To Trick Your Brain [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/five-cool-ways-trick-your-brain/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1973. Protecting the Consumer From Potentially Harmful Shellfish (Clams, Mussels, and Oysters) (No. B-164031(2)). 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

Winhusen, E.R., 2001. Precambrian Seawater Temperature Analysis Using Oxygen Isotopes from Hamersley Carbonates, Western Australia (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Poniewozik, J., 2017. Fittingly, a Frank Finale for ‘Girls.’ New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bosch, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bosch, 2001; Colton and Russell, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Colton and Russell, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Galloway et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Radioact.
ISSN (print)	0265-931X
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution Waste Management and Disposal General Medicine