How to format your references using the Environmental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Health. 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. Yantis S. Neuroscience. To see is to attend. Science. 2003;299:54–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jinnah S, Jungcurt S. Global biological resources. Could access requirements stifle your research? Science. 2009;323:464–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Leopold DA, Bondar IV, Giese MA. Norm-based face encoding by single neurons in the monkey inferotemporal cortex. Nature. 2006;442:572–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sisneros JA, Forlano PM, Deitcher DL, Bass AH. Steroid-dependent auditory plasticity leads to adaptive coupling of sender and receiver. Science. 2004;305:404–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sewell G. The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Kasch F. Regularity and Substructures of Hom. Mader A, editor. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Arvind GR. Deliberative Democracy, People’s Agency and Education. In: Mitchell RC, Moore SA, editors. Politics, Participation & Power Relations: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Critical Citizenship in the Classroom and Community. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012. p. 63–82.

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.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Scientists Successfully Destroy Cancer With Nanobubbles [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-successfully-destroy-cancer-nanobubbles/

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. Trade Adjustment Assistance: Labor Awarded Community College Grants in Accordance with Requirements, but Needs to Improve Its Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Sep. Report No.: GAO-12-954.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Robert NA. Cortile: World Building & the Traveler Archetype [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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. Kelly C. Vape Shops Fear Effects Of New F.D.A. Rules. New York Times. 2017 May 10;B5.

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
Abbreviation	Environ. Health
ISSN (online)	1476-069X
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health