How to format your references using the Environmental Health Perspectives citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). 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

Robel A. 2015. Climate science: The long future of Antarctic melting. Nature 526: 327–328.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chang G, Roth CB. 2001. Structure of MsbA from E. coli: a homolog of the multidrug resistance ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters. Science 293: 1793–1800.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palmer MJ, Fukuyama F, Relman DA. 2015. SCIENCE GOVERNANCE. A more systematic approach to biological risk. Science 350: 1471–1473.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Prystowsky M, Feeney K, Kawachi N, Montagna C, Willmott M, Wasson C, et al. 2013. Inhibition of Plk1 and Cyclin B1 expression results in panobinostat-induced G₂ delay and mitotic defects. Sci Rep 3: 2640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fliszár S. 2008. Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.:Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Böhme R, ed. 2013. The Economics of Information Security and Privacy. Springer:Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Christen M, Ott T. 2013. Quantified Coherence of Moral Beliefs as Predictive Factor for Moral Agency. In: What Makes Us Moral? On the capacities and conditions for being moral (B. Musschenga and A. van Harskamp, eds). Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Springer Netherlands:Dordrecht. 73–96.

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 Perspectives.

Blog post

Davis J. 2015. Tiny Octopus Displays Some Pretty Bizarre Hunting, Social, And Sexual Behavior. IFLScience. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiny-octopus-displays-weird-hunting-social-and-sexual/ [accessed 30 October 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. 1998. FCC: Service and Auction Rules for the 38.6-40.0 GHz Frequency Band.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Magnus JV. 2017. Female Police Officers: The Influence of a Masculine Culture. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University:Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Brantley B. 2017. First Comes Love, Then Mortality. New York Times, January 5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robel 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chang and Roth 2001; Robel 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chang and Roth 2001)
Three or more authors: (Prystowsky et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Health Perspectives
Abbreviation	Environ. Health Perspect.
ISSN (print)	0091-6765
ISSN (online)	1552-9924
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health