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. Harvey CF. Groundwater flow in the Ganges Delta. Science. 2002;296:1563.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gascon C, Smith ML. Ecology. Where rivers meet. Science. 2004;305:1922–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ginsberg NS, Garner SR, Hau LV. Coherent control of optical information with matter wave dynamics. Nature. 2007;445:623–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Abbondanzieri EA, Bokinsky G, Rausch JW, Zhang JX, Le Grice SFJ, Zhuang X. Dynamic binding orientations direct activity of HIV reverse transcriptase. Nature. 2008;453:184–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Beckers B, Beckers P. Reconciliation of Geometry and Perception in Radiation Physics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Beushausen H, Fernandez Luco L, editors. Performance-Based Specifications and Control of Concrete Durability: State-of-the-Art Report RILEM TC 230-PSC. 1st ed. 2016. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Tian T, Luo J. A VO-Based Two-Stage Replica Replacement Algorithm. In: Li K, Jesshope C, Jin H, Gaudiot J-L, editors. Network and Parallel Computing: IFIP International Conference, NPC 2007, Dalian, China, September 18-21, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 41–50.

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. Andrew D. How We Discovered The ‘Higgs Bison’, Hiding In Plain Sight In Ancient Cave Art [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-we-discovered-the-higgs-bison-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-ancient-cave-art/

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. Suggested Areas for Oversight for the 110th Congress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Nov. Report No.: GAO-07-235R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lieberman DS. “Stroke Your Thoroughbreds and Kick Your Donkeys”: Power and the Secondary Administrative Distribution of Teaching Assignments [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2017.

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. Schmidt MS. Red Sox Used Apple Watch to Help Steal Signs, Inquiry Finds. New York Times. 2017 Sep 5;A1.

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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