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

Singer M (2004) Education. The evolution of postdocs. Science 306:232

A journal article with 2 authors

Bongaarts J, Over M (2010) Public health. Global HIV/AIDS policy in transition. Science 328:1359–1360

A journal article with 3 authors

McGraw CM, Samaco RC, Zoghbi HY (2011) Adult neural function requires MeCP2. Science 333:186

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bibby TS, Mary I, Nield J, et al (2003) Low-light-adapted Prochlorococcus species possess specific antennae for each photosystem. Nature 424:1051–1054

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alexandrovna MI, Ionin BI, Tebby JC (2013) Alkynes in Cycloadditions. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Flint G, Rusbridge C (eds) (2014) Syringomyelia: A Disorder of CSF Circulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Placier P, Pinnegar S, Hamilton ML, Guilfoyle K (2005) Exploring the Concept of Dialogue in the Self-Study of Teaching Practices. In: Kosnik C, Beck C, Freese AR, Samaras AP (eds) Making a Difference in Teacher Education Through Self-Study: Studies of Personal, Professional and Program Renewal. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 51–64

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

Andrews R (2016) Researcher Uses CRISPR To Edit DNA Of Healthy Human Embryos In Controversial World First. In: IFLScience. 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 (1994) Desert Shield and Desert Storm Reports and Testimonies: 1991-93. 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

Grasis JA (2008) Controlling T lymphocyte activation with a molecular rheostat. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Greenhouse L (2016) Chasing Abortion Rights Across the State Line. New York Times SR5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Singer 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Singer 2004; Bongaarts and Over 2010).

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

Two authors: (Bongaarts and Over 2010)
Three or more authors: (Bibby et al. 2003)

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