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. Swarup A. Science careers. Analyzing scientific investments. Science. 2008;322:1266–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lyon BE, Eadie JM. An obligate brood parasite trapped in the intraspecific arms race of its hosts. Nature. 2004;432:390–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kusky TM, Li JH, Tucker RD. The Archean Dongwanzi ophiolite complex, North China craton: 2.505-billion-year-old oceanic crust and mantle. Science. 2001;292:1142–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Matsuo T, Yamaguchi S, Mitsui S, Emi A, Shimoda F, Okamura H. Control mechanism of the circadian clock for timing of cell division in vivo. Science. 2003;302:255–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Henderson TJ. Beyond Borders. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Fitzek FHP, Katz MD, editors. Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications: Real Egoistic Behavior is to Cooperate! Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schnitman DF. Generative Inquiry in Therapy: From Problems to Creativity. In: Sugiman T, Gergen KJ, Wagner W, Yamada Y, editors. Meaning in Action: Constructions, Narratives, and Representations. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2008. p. 73–95.

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. Luntz S. The Alliance Between Jellyfish And Baby Fish Fails The Acid Test. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Education Taking Needed Actions But Work Remains. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 May. Report No.: T-AIMD-99-180.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dutta A. Systems optimization for mobility management [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 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 R. Home Sweet Hole. New York Times. 2000 Mar 26;79.

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

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