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. Kemp M. From science in art to the art of science. Nature. 2005;434:308–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yanega GM, Rubega MA. Feeding mechanisms: Hummingbird jaw bends to aid insect capture. Nature. 2004;428:615.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Shin S-B, Golovkin M, Reddy ASN. A pollen-specific calmodulin-binding protein, NPG1, interacts with putative pectate lyases. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5263.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Szenker-Ravi E, Altunoglu U, Leushacke M, Bosso-Lefèvre C, Khatoo M, Thi Tran H, et al. Author Correction: RSPO2 inhibition of RNF43 and ZNRF3 governs limb development independently of LGR4/5/6. Nature. 2018;561:E7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sarkar TK, Salazar-Palma M, Mokole EL. Physics of Multiantenna Systems and Broadband Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

1. Pawar KS, Rogers H, Potter A, Naim M, editors. Developments in Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Past, Present and Future. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Barletta M, Ranise S, Viganò L. Automated Analysis of Scenario-Based Specifications of Distributed Access Control Policies with Non-mechanizable Activities. In: Jøsang A, Samarati P, Petrocchi M, editors. Security and Trust Management: 8th International Workshop, STM 2012, Pisa, Italy, September 13-14, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 49–64.

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. Carpineti A. Avalanche Victim Suffers From Sudoku-Induced Seizures [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sudoku-induced-seizures-avalanche-victim/

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. Airport Financing: Smaller Airports Face Future Funding Shortfalls. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Feb. Report No.: T-RCED-99-96.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Uthe PB. The development of polycationic materials for gene delivery applications [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 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. Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPIAGN: Undeclared Candidate; Where Perot Exhibits A Lifetime of Memories. New York Times. 1992 Jun 20;18.

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
Scope