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

Bromm V. 2010. Chemistry. To cool or not to cool. Science 329: 45–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

Giessen H, Lippitz M. 2010. Physics. Directing light emission from quantum dots. Science 329: 910–911.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halter WE, Pettke T, Heinrich CA. 2002. The origin of Cu/Au ratios in porphyry-type ore deposits. Science 296: 1844–1846.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brown MG, Dokun AO, Heusel JW, Smith HR, Beckman DL, Blattenberger EA, et al. 2001. Vital involvement of a natural killer cell activation receptor in resistance to viral infection. Science 292: 934–937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voit B, Haag R, Appelhans D, Welzel PB. 2016. Bio- and Multifunctional Polymer Architectures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc:Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Norton OR. 2008. Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites. L.A. Chitwood, ed. Springer:London.

A chapter in an edited book

Balachander SK. 2015. Flag-Shipping ‘Indicators’ for Green-Campus Transitions and Sustainability: A Case-Study of Learner-Centered Projects at Loyola, Secunderabad. In: Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives: Approaches, Methods and Perspectives (W. Leal Filho, N. Muthu, G. Edwin, and M. Sima, eds). World Sustainability Series. Springer International Publishing:Cham. 53–60.

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 Perspectives.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. The Earth’s Inner Core Gives Up More Of Its Magnetic Secrets. IFLScience. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/earth-s-inner-core-gives-its-more-its-magnetic-secrets/ [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. 1992. NASA Issues.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Belflower KE. 2012. The relationship between demographic and employment variables of job satisfaction among emergency nurses. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix:Phoenix, 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

Wagner J. 2016. Wait Over, Indians Strike Quickly. New York Times, October 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bromm 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bromm 2010; Giessen and Lippitz 2010).

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

Two authors: (Giessen and Lippitz 2010)
Three or more authors: (Brown et al. 2001)

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