How to format your references using the Current Environmental Health Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Environmental Health Reports. 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

1. Roll-Mecak A. Botany. Shining light at microtubule crossroads. Science. 2013;342:1180–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cummings CA, Relman DA. Genomics and microbiology. Microbial forensics--"cross-examining pathogens". Science. 2002;296:1976–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Milinski M, Semmann D, Krambeck H-J. Reputation helps solve the “tragedy of the commons.” Nature. 2002;415:424–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Stern E, Klemic JF, Routenberg DA, Wyrembak PN, Turner-Evans DB, Hamilton AD, et al. Label-free immunodetection with CMOS-compatible semiconducting nanowires. Nature. 2007;445:519–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hewitt A. Construction Claims & Responses. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Sachdev M, Gyvez JP de, editors. Defect-Oriented Testing for Nano-Metric CMOS VLSI Circuits: 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cheng J, Smith LP. Airway and Aerodigestive Tract. In: Cheng J, Bent JP, editors. Endoscopic Atlas of Pediatric Otolaryngology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 39–59.

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 Current Environmental Health Reports.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Ancient Chinese Cave Writing Describes Social Impacts of Climate Change [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ancient-chinese-cave-writing-describes-social-impacts-climate-change/

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. Space Shuttle: The Future of the Vandenberg Launch Site Needs to Be Determined. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Aug. Report No.: NSIAD-88-158.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Papacostaki M. Under the black sun [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2010.

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. Goldstein J. The Pickpocket’s Tale. New York Times. 2014 Jul 18;MB1.

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	Current Environmental Health Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Environ. Health Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-5412
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