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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
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
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Meinwald J. Retrospective. Thomas Eisner (1929-2011). Science 2011; 332: 549.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Ridderinkhof KR, van den Wildenberg WPM. Neuroscience. Adaptive coding. Science 2005; 307: 1059–1060.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Zikherman J, Parameswaran R, Weiss A. Endogenous antigen tunes the responsiveness of naive B cells but not T cells. Nature 2012; 489: 160–164.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Matloubian M, Lo CG, Cinamon G, Lesneski MJ, Xu Y, Brinkmann V et al. Lymphocyte egress from thymus and peripheral lymphoid organs is dependent on S1P receptor 1. Nature 2004; 427: 355–360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Ahonen TT. m-Profits. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2006.
An edited book
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Amara A, Ea T, Belleville M (eds.). Emerging Technologies and Circuits. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2010.
A chapter in an edited book
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Chen L, Biswas S. Digital Curvatures Applied to 3D Object Analysis and Recognition: A Case Study. In: Barneva RP, Brimkov VE, Aggarwal JK (eds). Combinatorial Image Analaysis: 15th International Workshop, IWCIA 2012, Austin, TX, USA, November 28-30, 2012. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012, pp 45–58.

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
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Andrews R. India Successfully Deploys 104 Satellites In World Record-Breaking Rocket Launch. IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/space/india-deploys-104-satellites-world-recordbreaking-rocket-launch/ (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
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Government Accountability Office. Emergency Management: Status of School Districts’ Planning and Preparedness. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007.

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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Hong AN. A Diastereomeric Strategy in the Construction of Homochiral Metal-Organic Architectures. 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
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Schwartz J. Apologies. Really. And I Will Definitely Grow Up. New York Times. 2017; : BU14.

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 titleJournal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
AbbreviationJ. Expo. Sci. Environ. Epidemiol.
ISSN (print)1559-0631
ISSN (online)1559-064X
ScopePollution
Epidemiology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Toxicology

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