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 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

Meijer D (2009) Neuroscience. Went fishing, caught a snake. Science 325:1353–1354

A journal article with 2 authors

Whorton MR, MacKinnon R (2013) X-ray structure of the mammalian GIRK2-βγ G-protein complex. Nature 498:190–197

A journal article with 3 authors

Sparrow B, Liu J, Wegner DM (2011) Google effects on memory: cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips. Science 333:776–778

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jaccard SL, Haug GH, Sigman DM, et al (2005) Glacial/interglacial changes in subarctic north pacific stratification. Science 308:1003–1006

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph CL, Bernal S (2016) Modern Devices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hargrave BT (ed) (2005) Environmental Effects of Marine Finfish Aquaculture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Chue S, Tan KCD (2012) Multimodality in Problem Solving. In: Tan KCD, Kim M (eds) Issues and Challenges in Science Education Research: Moving Forward. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 55–71

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) Astronauts Might Eat These Space Food Bars On A Future Mission To The Moon. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronauts-might-eat-these-space-food-bars-on-a-future-mission-to-the-moon/. 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 (2002) Federal Student Aid: Additional Management Improvements Would Clarify Strategic Direction and Enhance Accountability. 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

Enriquez M (2010) Music therapy to hospice patients of Visiting Nurse Association of Inland Counties: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Burghardt LF (2006) The Legacies They Left. New York Times 14LI7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meijer 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Meijer 2009; Whorton and MacKinnon 2013).

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

Two authors: (Whorton and MacKinnon 2013)
Three or more authors: (Jaccard et al. 2005)

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