How to format your references using the Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine. 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	Download the output style file
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. Koshland DE Jr. Philosophy of science. The Cha-Cha-Cha Theory of Scientific Discovery. Science. 2007;317:761–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Withers P, Neumann GA. Enigmatic northern plains of Mars. Nature. 2001;410:651.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Petta JR, Lu H, Gossard AC. A coherent beam splitter for electronic spin states. Science. 2010;327:669–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Xu Y, Feng L, Jeffrey PD, Shi Y, Morel FMM. Structure and metal exchange in the cadmium carbonic anhydrase of marine diatoms. Nature. 2008;452:56–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Johnson DW, Woodward JL. Release. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Richter M, Andresen S, editors. The Politicization of Parenthood: Shifting private and public responsibilities in education and child rearing. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ho Q-D, Gao Y, Rajalingham G, Le-Ngoc T. Wireless Routing Protocols for NANs. In: Gao Y, Rajalingham G, Le-Ngoc T, editors. Wireless Communications Networks for the Smart Grid. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 51–69.

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 Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Humans Could Be In Orbit Around Mars As Soon As 2028 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/humans-could-be-orbit-around-mars-soon-2028/

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. University Funding: Information on the Role of Peer Review at NSF and NIH. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Mar. Report No.: RCED-87-87FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Abraham SR. Using Self-Monitoring and Goal Setting to Increase Swimming in Adults [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2015.

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. Murphy MJO. 139 Years Ago: American Museum of Natural History Opens Its Permanent Home. New York Times. 2016 Jan 22;C32.

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	Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
Abbreviation	Environ. Health Prev. Med.
ISSN (print)	1342-078X
ISSN (online)	1347-4715
Scope	General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health