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. Odling-Smee L. Science education: a science giant moves house. Nature. 2013;496:167.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Traas J, Vernoux T. Plant science. Oscillating roots. Science. 2010;329:1290–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Tuch BB, Li H, Johnson AD. Evolution of eukaryotic transcription circuits. Science. 2008;319:1797–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Collettini C, Niemeijer A, Viti C, Marone C. Fault zone fabric and fault weakness. Nature. 2009;462:907–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bailly P. Materials and Structures under Shock and Impact. Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Isokoski P, Springare J, editors. Haptics: Perception, Devices, Mobility, and Communication: International Conference, EuroHaptics 2012, Tampere, Finland, June 13-15, 2012 Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Brown M, Heaton S. Ko Ahau Te Awa Ko Te Awa Ko Ahau – I Am the River, and the River is me. In: Robertson M, Lawrence R, Heath G, editors. Experiencing the Outdoors: Enhancing Strategies for Wellbeing. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015. p. 49–60.

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. Luntz S. How Our Ancestors First Used Fire To Shape Tools 70,000 Years Ago [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-our-ancestors-first-used-fire-to-shape-tools-70000-years-ago/

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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Needs to Improve Its Decisionmaking Process for Its Route and Service Proposals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Apr. Report No.: GAO-02-398.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Watson CA. A cultural confluence: Approaches to embedding cultural insights and inclusion throughout the marketing process [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2014.

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. Kenigsberg B. Film Series in NYC This Week. New York Times. 2016 Dec 7;C29.

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