How to format your references using the International Journal of Environmental Health Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 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

Beaudet AL. 2012. Neuroscience. Preventable forms of autism? Science. 338(6105):342–343.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kane CL, Mele EJ. 2006. Physics. A new spin on the insulating state. Science. 314(5806):1692–1693.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guilderson TP, Reimer PJ, Brown TA. 2005. Geoscience. The boon and bane of radiocarbon dating. Science. 307(5708):362–364.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Daou R, Chang J, Leboeuf D, Cyr-Choinière O, Laliberté F, Doiron-Leyraud N, Ramshaw BJ, Liang R, Bonn DA, Hardy WN, Taillefer L. 2010. Broken rotational symmetry in the pseudogap phase of a high-T(c) superconductor. Nature. 463(7280):519–522.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marks KH, Robbins LE, Fernández G, Funkhouser JP, Williams DL. 2009. The Handbook of Financing Growth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pelekis N. 2014. Mobility Data Management and Exploration. Theodoridis Y, editor. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ellis GFR. 2009. Top-Down Causation and the Human Brain. In: Murphy N, Ellis GFR, O’Connor T, editors. Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 63–81.

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 International Journal of Environmental Health Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2016. Three Ways Synthetic Biology Could Annihilate Zika And Other Mosquito-Borne Diseases. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/three-ways-synthetic-biology-could-annihilate-zika-and-other-mosquito-borne-1/

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. National Security: Papers Prepared for GAO Conference on Worldwide Threats. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zanjani F. 2014. Leadership and decision making of successful Iranian American [Doctoral dissertation]. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

St. John Kelly E. 1998. Building a Business, Quarter by Quarter. New York Times.:144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beaudet 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Kane and Mele 2006; Beaudet 2012).

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

Two authors: (Kane and Mele 2006)
Three or more authors: (Daou et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Environmental Health Research
Abbreviation	Int. J. Environ. Health Res.
ISSN (print)	0960-3123
ISSN (online)	1369-1619
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health