How to format your references using the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology citation style

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

Bonetta L. Protein purification: fast forward. Nature 2006; 439: 1017–1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suzuki Y, Nijhout HF. Evolution of a polyphenism by genetic accommodation. Science 2006; 311: 650–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pettinato G, Wen X, Zhang N. Formation of well-defined embryoid bodies from dissociated human induced pluripotent stem cells using microfabricated cell-repellent microwell arrays. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 7402.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Davidson G, Wu W, Shen J, Bilic J, Fenger U, Stannek P et al. Casein kinase 1 gamma couples Wnt receptor activation to cytoplasmic signal transduction. Nature 2005; 438: 867–872.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levy G, Levin B. The Biostatistics of Aging. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

Valentini R, Miglietta F (eds.). The Greenhouse Gas Balance of Italy: An Insight on Managed and Natural Terrestrial Ecosystems. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Quentel-Touche C. Charles V’s Visual Definition of the Queen’s Virtues. In: Green K, Mews C (eds). Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011, pp 53–80.

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 Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Biological Pacemaker Developed Using Gene Therapy. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biological-pacemaker-developed-using-gene-therapy/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Air Traffic Control: Observations on FAA’s Modernization Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garlapally V. Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Impact on Metamorphosis and Thyroid Development in African Clawed Frogs. 2017.

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. It’s Dark Out There Among the Stars. New York Times. 2017; : C15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
Abbreviation	J. Expo. Sci. Environ. Epidemiol.
ISSN (print)	1559-0631
ISSN (online)	1559-064X
Scope	Pollution Epidemiology Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Toxicology