How to format your references using the Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Hoag H (2015) Molecular biology: Marked progress. Nature 527:S114-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Goodson JL, Bass AH (2000) Forebrain peptides modulate sexually polymorphic vocal circuitry. Nature 403:769–772

A journal article with 3 authors

Gill RJ, Ramos-Rodriguez O, Raine NE (2012) Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual- and colony-level traits in bees. Nature 491:105–108

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dueber ELC, Corn JE, Bell SD, Berger JM (2007) Replication origin recognition and deformation by a heterodimeric archaeal Orc1 complex. Science 317:1210–1213

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mullaney MD (2009) The Complete Guide to Option Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Krömer R, Chin-Drian Y (eds) (2012) New Essays on Leibniz Reception: In Science and Philosophy of Science 1800-2000. Springer, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Austin B, Austin DA (2016) Aeromonadaceae Representatives (Motile Aeromonads). In: Austin DA (ed) Bacterial Fish Pathogens: Disease of Farmed and Wild Fish. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 161–214

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 Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Nobel Prize Awarded To Scientists Who Identified The Brain’s “GPS System.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/nobel-prize-awarded-scientists-who-identified-brains-gps-system/. 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 (1982) NSF’s Award of Two Research Vessels Met Requirements. 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

Soheili A (2008) A transannular Cope approach toward the core structure of isocyclocitrinol. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

MacFARQUHAR N (2017) No Dancer Escapes His Gaze. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Goodson and Bass 2000; Hoag 2015).

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

Two authors: (Goodson and Bass 2000)
Three or more authors: (Dueber et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
Abbreviation	Stoch. Environ. Res. Risk Assess.
ISSN (print)	1436-3240
ISSN (online)	1436-3259
Scope	Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering Water Science and Technology

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