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

Marx V (2013) Next-generation sequencing: The genome jigsaw. Nature 501:263–268

A journal article with 2 authors

Pimm SL, van Aarde RJ (2001) African elephants and contraception. Nature 411:766

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu M, Yu X, Ahlberg PE (2001) A primitive sarcopterygian fish with an eyestalk. Nature 410:81–84

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang W, Zhang W, Fang X, Huang Y, Liu Q, Gu J, Zhang D (2014) Demonstration of higher colour response with ambient refractive index in Papilio blumei as compared to Morpho rhetenor. Sci Rep 4:5591

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster MC (2007) HPLC. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lee C-F (2013) Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, 3rd ed. 2013. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Kothare MV, Wan Z (2007) A Computationally Efficient Scheduled Model Predictive Control Algorithm for Control of a Class of Constrained Nonlinear Systems. In: Findeisen R, Allgöwer F, Biegler LT (eds) Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–62

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 (2016) Supernova Traces Are Showering Earth, Suggesting Multiple Explosions Nearby. In: IFLScience. 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 (1994) National Test Facility: Civilian Agency Use of Supercomputers Not Feasible. 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

Fleming TC (2015) The Academic Identity Experience of Liberal Arts Faculty in the Age of New Managerialism. 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

Marx L (2012) Nila Do and Joshua Simon. New York Times ST15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Pimm and van Aarde 2001; Marx 2013).

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

Two authors: (Pimm and van Aarde 2001)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

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