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

Zwier TS (2009) Chemistry. Squeezing the water out of HCl(aq). Science 324:1522–1523

A journal article with 2 authors

Domon B, Aebersold R (2006) Mass spectrometry and protein analysis. Science 312:212–217

A journal article with 3 authors

Franke KJ, Schulze G, Pascual JI (2011) Competition of superconducting phenomena and Kondo screening at the nanoscale. Science 332:940–944

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pelkmans L, Fava E, Grabner H, Hannus M, Habermann B, Krausz E, Zerial M (2005) Genome-wide analysis of human kinases in clathrin- and caveolae/raft-mediated endocytosis. Nature 436:78–86

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pachamanova DA, Fabozzi FJ (2016) Portfolio Construction and Analytics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Das KN, Deep K, Pant M, Bansal JC, Nagar A (eds) (2015) Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving: SocProS 2014, Volume 2. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Acha EM, Piola A, Iribarne O, Mianzan H (2015) Comparisons of Fronts with Other Boundaries at Sea. In: Piola A, Iribarne O, Mianzan H (eds) Ecological Processes at Marine Fronts: Oases in the ocean. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 41–46

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

Andrew E (2015) Watch A Cheetah Robot Jump Over Hurdles Without Slowing Down. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/cheetah-robot-jumps-over-hurdles-without-slowing-down/. 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 (1995) Earth Observing System: Concentration on Near-Term EOSDIS Development May Jeopardize Long-Term Success. 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

LaPorte M (2017) Depression and Rumination as a Predictor for Types of Substances Abused. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Gustines GG, Kepler AW (2011) Not All Superheroes Are Equal (At Least the Second Time Around). New York Times C5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zwier 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Domon and Aebersold 2006; Zwier 2009).

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

Two authors: (Domon and Aebersold 2006)
Three or more authors: (Pelkmans et al. 2005)

About the journal

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