How to format your references using the EcoHealth citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EcoHealth. 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

Hirose K (2010) Geochemistry. Deep mantle properties. Science 327:151–152

A journal article with 2 authors

Mongiat LA, Schinder AF (2014) Neuroscience. A price to pay for adult neurogenesis. Science 344:594–595

A journal article with 3 authors

Petrie RJ, Koo H, Yamada KM (2014) Generation of compartmentalized pressure by a nuclear piston governs cell motility in a 3D matrix. Science 345:1062–1065

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yeromin AV, Zhang SL, Jiang W, Yu Y, Safrina O, Cahalan MD (2006) Molecular identification of the CRAC channel by altered ion selectivity in a mutant of Orai. Nature 443:226–229

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pavé A (2012) Modeling Living Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Khachidze V, Wang T, Siddiqui S, Liu V, Cappuccio S, Lim A (eds) (2012) Contemporary Research on E-business Technology and Strategy: International Conference, iCETS 2012, Tianjin, China, August 29-31, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Neubauer M, Oppl S, Stary C, Weichhart G (2013) Facilitating Knowledge Transfer in IANES - A Transactive Memory Approach. In: Howlett RJ, Gabrys B, Musial-Gabrys K, Roach J (eds) Innovation through Knowledge Transfer 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 39–50

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 EcoHealth.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Rapid Tectonic Shifts Explained. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/rapid-tectonic-shifts-explained/. 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 (2008) Nanotechnology: Better Guidance Is Needed to Ensure Accurate Reporting of Federal Research Focused on Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks. 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

Bermudez D (2008) The effects of Hispanic parent-adolescent biculturalism disparity on male adolescent delinquency. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Grynbaum MM (2017) The Incredible Shrinking White House Briefing. New York Times A15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hirose 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hirose 2010; Mongiat and Schinder 2014).

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

Two authors: (Mongiat and Schinder 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yeromin et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	EcoHealth
Abbreviation	Ecohealth
ISSN (print)	1612-9202
ISSN (online)	1612-9210
Scope	Ecology Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis