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

Zupanc, G.K.H., 2006. Obituary: Theodore H. Bullock (1915-2005). Nature 439, 280.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, A.E., Helenius, A., 2004. How viruses enter animal cells. Science 304, 237–242.

A journal article with 3 authors

Howat, I.M., Joughin, I., Scambos, T.A., 2007. Rapid changes in ice discharge from Greenland outlet glaciers. Science 315, 1559–1561.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shamovsky, I., Ivannikov, M., Kandel, E.S., Gershon, D., Nudler, E., 2006. RNA-mediated response to heat shock in mammalian cells. Nature 440, 556–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pangarkar, V.G., 2014. Design of Multiphase Reactors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Turri, J. (Ed.), 2013. Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa, Philosophical Studies Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, K.-L., Hsieh, Y.-M., Liu, C.-N., Chen, J.-R., Wu, C.-M., Lin, S.-Y., Pan, H.-Y., 2015. Using Motion Sensor for Landslide Monitoring and Hazard Mitigation, in: Leung, H., Chandra Mukhopadhyay, S. (Eds.), Intelligent Environmental Sensing, Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 111–127.

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

Hale, T., 2015. Company That Upped Drug Price By 5,000% Reports $14.6 Million Loss In Three Months [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2002. Transportation Infrastructure: Alternative Financing Mechanisms for Surface Transportation (No. GAO-02-1126T). 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

Torres, A., 2013. An understanding of the first-generation community college student: A strengths and assets approach (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kishkovsky, S., 2005. Moscow Theater Hit Again by Fire. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zupanc, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Smith and Helenius, 2004; Zupanc, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Helenius, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Shamovsky et al., 2006)

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