How to format your references using the Radiation and Environmental Biophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Radiation and Environmental Biophysics. 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

Berry DA (2008) The science of doping. Nature 454:692–693

A journal article with 2 authors

Canadell JG, Raupach MR (2008) Managing forests for climate change mitigation. Science 320:1456–1457

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu B, Chen J, Singer RH (2014) Background free imaging of single mRNAs in live cells using split fluorescent proteins. Sci Rep 4:3615

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yamamoto K, Dürr UHN, Xu J, et al (2013) Dynamic interaction between membrane-bound full-length cytochrome P450 and cytochrome b5 observed by solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Sci Rep 3:2538

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blair R, Regenstein JM (2015) Genetic Modification and Food Quality. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kogut PI (2011) Optimal Control Problems for Partial Differential Equations on Reticulated Domains: Approximation and Asymptotic Analysis. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Derkach V, Hassi S, de Snoo H (2007) Asymptotic Expansions of Generalized Nevanlinna Functions and their Spectral Properties. In: Förster K-H, Jonas P, Langer H, Trunk C (eds) Operator Theory in Inner Product Spaces. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp 51–88

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 Radiation and Environmental Biophysics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Neil deGrasse Tyson Annihilates Anti-GMO Argument. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/neil-degrasse-tyson-annihilates-anti-gmo-argument/. Accessed 30 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

Government Accountability Office (1998) FWS: Migratory Bird Hunting--Late Seasons and Bag Possession Limits for Certain Migratory Game Birds. 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

Alsobrook JA (2013) Music Education in America: A Content Analysis and National Perspective of Standards-Based Outcomes for K–8 General Music. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Kelly M (1992) Ideology Seems to Doom Cabinet Contender. New York Times B20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Berry 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Canadell and Raupach 2008; Berry 2008).

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

Two authors: (Canadell and Raupach 2008)
Three or more authors: (Yamamoto et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics
Abbreviation	Radiat. Environ. Biophys.
ISSN (print)	0301-634X
ISSN (online)	1432-2099
Scope	Biophysics General Environmental Science Radiation