How to format your references using the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology citation style

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

Gershon D. Complex political, ethical and legal issues surround research on human embryonic stem cells. Nature 2003; 422: 928–929.

A journal article with 2 authors

McKerracher L, Ellezam B. Development. Putting the brakes on regeneration. Science 2002; 296: 1819–1820.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reik W, Dean W, Walter J. Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development. Science 2001; 293: 1089–1093.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wei T, Huang Y-H, Zeng R, Yuan L-X, Hu X-L, Zhang W-X et al. Evaluation of Ca3Co2O6 as cathode material for high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 1125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barquinha P, Martins R, Pereira L, Fortunato E. Transparent Oxide Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

Beck-Nielsen H (ed.). The Metabolic Syndrome: Pharmacology and Clinical Aspects. Springer: Vienna, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Wood RT. U.S. Department of Energy Instrumentation and Controls Technology Research for Advanced Small Modular Reactors. In: Yoshikawa H, Zhang Z (eds). Progress of Nuclear Safety for Symbiosis and Sustainability: Advanced Digital Instrumentation, Control and Information Systems for Nuclear Power Plants. Springer Japan: Tokyo, 2014, pp 33–39.

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 Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Wolf Howling. IFLScience. 2013.

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. Aviation Security: Corrective Actions Underway, but Better Inspection Guidance Still Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schlumbrecht CE. Do Negative Experiences Influence Substance Use in Adolescent Males and Females? 2015.

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

Forman J Jr. ‘We Are Not Beasts’. New York Times. 2016; : BR20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
Abbreviation	J. Expo. Sci. Environ. Epidemiol.
ISSN (print)	1559-0631
ISSN (online)	1559-064X
Scope	Pollution Epidemiology Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Toxicology