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

Parthasarathy H. 2002. From scepticism to acceptance. Nature. 419(6910):4–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knee LB, Brunt CM. 2001. A massive cloud of cold atomic hydrogen in the outer Galaxy. Nature. 412(6844):308–310.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jaeger TF, Pontillo D, Graff P. 2012. Comment on “Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa.” Science. 335(6072):1042; author reply 1042.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

David L, Feldman A, Mansfield E, Lehman J, Singh G. 2014. Evaluating the thermal damage resistance of graphene/carbon nanotube hybrid composite coatings. Sci Rep. 4:4311.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gasser W, Heiner E, Elk K. 2005. Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- und Vielteilchenphysik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Martínez-López FJ, Gázquez-Abad JC, Sethuraman R, editors. 2015. Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing: Second International Conference, 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Areces C, Orbe E. 2013. Dealing with Symmetries in Modal Tableaux. In: Galmiche D, Larchey-Wendling D, editors. Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods: 22nd International Conference, TABLEAUX 2013, Nancy, France, September 16-19, 2013, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 13–27.

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. 2014. Scientists Develop Environmentally Friendly Diapers Made From Jellyfish. IFLScience.

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. 1991. Major ADP Systems: DOD Does Not Always Comply With Statutory Restriction on Obligations. 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

Mosher L. 2008. The relationship between Christian literature and executive leader performance [Doctoral dissertation]. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Kelly SR. 2012. Good Neighbors, Bad Border. New York Times.:A31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parthasarathy 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Knee and Brunt 2001; Parthasarathy 2002).

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

Two authors: (Knee and Brunt 2001)
Three or more authors: (David et al. 2014)

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