How to format your references using the Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

Navrotsky A. Nuclear Materials. Taking the measure of molten uranium oxide. Science. 2014;346(6212):916–917.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shcheka SS, Keppler H. The origin of the terrestrial noble-gas signature. Nature. 2012;490(7421):531–534.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ehrlich PR, Kareiva PM, Daily GC. Securing natural capital and expanding equity to rescale civilization. Nature. 2012;486(7401):68–73.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Homes CC, Tu JJ, Li J, et al. Optical conductivity of nodal metals. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

bauforumstahl e.V. Beispiele zur Bemessung von Stahltragwerken nach DIN EN 1993 Eurocode 3. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Zein FE, Suciu AI, Tosun M, et al., editors. Arrangements, Local Systems and Singularities: CIMPA Summer School, Galatasaray University, Istanbul, 2007. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhu J, Li Y, He G, et al. An Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware Based on Multiplexer Module Array. In: Kang L, Liu Y, Zeng S, editors. Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware: 7th International Conference, ICES 2007, Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 35–44.

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 Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Cracked It! A 30-Year Cold Case Involving An Egg And The Mysterious Night Parrot [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cracked-it-a-30year-cold-case-involving-an-egg-and-the-mysterious-night-parrot/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Career Education: Status and Needed Improvements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976. Report No.: MWD-76-81. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tan SW. A pedagogical approach to selected études from Étude en douze exercices, S.136 and Études d ’exécution transcendante, S.139 by Franz Liszt [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

[1]

Vizard MM. In the Region /Westchester; Avalon Joins New Roc City for New Rochelle Revival. New York Times. 1999 Oct 31;1111.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies
Abbreviation	Isotopes Environ. Health Stud.
ISSN (print)	1025-6016
ISSN (online)	1477-2639
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry