How to format your references using the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 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

Leonhardt, U., 2013. Applied physics: cloaking of heat. Nature 498, 440–441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nahrendorf, M., Swirski, F.K., 2015. Immunology. Neutrophil-macrophage communication in inflammation and atherosclerosis. Science 349, 237–238.

A journal article with 3 authors

Neutel, A.-M., Heesterbeek, J.A.P., De Ruiter, P.C., 2002. Stability in real food webs: weak links in long loops. Science 296, 1120–1123.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun, K., Liu, J., Gao, Y., Jin, L., Gu, Y., Wang, W., 2014. Isolation, plant colonization potential, and phenanthrene degradation performance of the endophytic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. Ph6-gfp. Sci. Rep. 4, 5462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berk, J., 2010. Cost Reduction and Optimization for Manufacturing and Industrial Companies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Andersson, K.-E., Michel, M.C. (Eds.), 2011. Urinary Tract, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Perri, R., Carlesimo, G.A., 2009. I deficit cognitivi nelle sindromi extrapiramidali con demenza, in: Caltagirone, C. (Ed.), Malattia Di Parkinson e Parkinsonismi: La Prospettiva Delle Neuroscienze Cognitive. Springer, Milano, pp. 53–79.

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 Environmental Radioactivity.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017. The Tragic Story Of Soviet Genetics Shows The Folly Of Political Meddling In Science [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-tragic-story-of-soviet-genetics-shows-the-folly-of-political-meddling-in-science/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. Guaranteed Student Loans: Potential Default and Cost Reduction Options (No. HRD-88-52BR). 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

Rivera, C., 2017. The Role of Privacy, Brand Labeling, and Cost on Condom Procurement: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Assess a University Policy (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Paulson, M., 2017. Ahead of Tonys, Watching Everything. New York Times A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leonhardt, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Leonhardt, 2013; Nahrendorf and Swirski, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Nahrendorf and Swirski, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Radioact.
ISSN (print)	0265-931X
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution Waste Management and Disposal General Medicine