How to format your references using the Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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] Bradley, D. Neuroscience. Moving through the landscape. Science 2002, 295(5564), 2385–2386.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1] Embley, T.M.; Williams, T.A. Evolution: Steps on the road to eukaryotes. Nature 2015, 521(7551), 169–170.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1] Shcherbina, A.Y.; Talley, L.D.; Rudnick, D.L. Direct observations of North Pacific ventilation: brine rejection in the Okhotsk Sea. Science 2003, 302(5652), 1952–1955.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1] Sang, Y.; Wang, B.; Wang, Q.; Zhao, G.; Guo, P. Insights into the electrocatalysis of nitrobenzene using chemically-modified carbon nanotube electrodes. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6321.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1] Pakurar, A.S.; Bigbee, J.W. Digital Histology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005.
An edited book
[1] O’Connor, R.V.; Umay Akkaya, M.; Kemaneci, K.; Yilmaz, M.; Poth, A.; Messnarz, R. (Eds). Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement: 22nd European Conference, EuroSPI 2015, Ankara, Turkey, September 30 -- October 2, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; XV, 337 p. 82 illus pp.
A chapter in an edited book
[1] Bailly, C.; Comte-Bellot, G. Free Turbulent Flows: Jets and Wakes. In Turbulence; Comte-Bellot, G., Ed.Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; 85–112.

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 Science and Health, Part B.

Blog post
[1] Taub, B. Breathing Through The Nose Can Enhance Your Memory Recall And Emotional Processing. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/breathing-through-nose-can-enhance-memory-recall-emotional-processing/ (accessed 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
[1] Government Accountability Office. Opportunities Still Exist To Better Use the Mint’s Data Processing Center. 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1] Kargbo, A.H. An Approach to Dynamic Resource Allocation for Electric Power Disaster Response Management. Doctoral dissertation,  2019.

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] Williams, J. Alcoholism in America. New York Times. , BR4. 2017.

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 titleJournal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B
AbbreviationJ. Environ. Sci. Health B
ISSN (print)0360-1234
ISSN (online)1532-4109
ScopeFood Science
Pollution
General Medicine

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