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

Goldston D. 2007. Washington, we have a problem. Nature 446: 244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Treacy MMJ, Borisenko KB. 2012. The local structure of amorphous silicon. Science 335: 950–953.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kender S, Yu J, Peck VL. 2014. Deep ocean carbonate ion increase during mid Miocene CO2 decline. Sci Rep 4: 4187.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Frankenberg C, Meirink JF, van Weele M, Platt U, Wagner T. 2005. Assessing methane emissions from global space-borne observations. Science 308: 1010–1014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Valiev RZ, Zhilyaev AP, Langdon TG. 2013. Bulk Nanostructured Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc:Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Guillet F, Pinaud B, Venturini G, Zighed DA, eds. 2014. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management: Volume 4. Springer International Publishing:Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ronse C. 2011. Orders on Partial Partitions and Maximal Partitioning of Sets. In: Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Image and Signal Processing: 10th International Symposium, ISMM 2011, Verbania-Intra, Italy, July 6-8, 2011. Proceedings (P. Soille, M. Pesaresi, and G.K. Ouzounis, eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer:Berlin, Heidelberg. 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 Perspectives.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Where Does The Smell of Old Books Come From? IFLScience. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/where-does-smell-old-books-come/ [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: Development of Technical and Spectrum Requirements for Meeting Public Safety Agency Communication Requirements Through 2010, Establishment of Rules and Requirements for Priority Access Service.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson KC. 2013. Teacher and parent perceptions of classroom experiences of African American male students in a high school alternative program. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University:Malibu, CA.

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

Gustines GG. 2013. Vertigo, a DC Brand, Is Rebuilding With 6 New Series. New York Times, July 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston 2007; Treacy and Borisenko 2012).

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

Two authors: (Treacy and Borisenko 2012)
Three or more authors: (Frankenberg et al. 2005)

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