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

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

Smaglik, P. Cultivating Black Gold. Nature 2005, 433, 779.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leibfarth, F.A.; Hawker, C.J. Chemistry. Mechanically Throwing a Reaction into Reverse. Science 2011, 333, 1582–1583.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gao, G.; Guo, X.; Goff, S.P. Inhibition of Retroviral RNA Production by ZAP, a CCCH-Type Zinc Finger Protein. Science 2002, 297, 1703–1706.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Teeling, E.C.; Scally, M.; Kao, D.J.; Romagnoli, M.L.; Springer, M.S.; Stanhope, M.J. Molecular Evidence Regarding the Origin of Echolocation and Flight in Bats. Nature 2000, 403, 188–192.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hezaveh, A. SAS® 9 Study Guide; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2007; ISBN 9781118032367.

An edited book

Flow and Combustion in Reciprocating Engines; Arcoumanis, C., Kamimoto, T., Eds.; Experimental Fluid Mechanics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; ISBN 9783540641421.

A chapter in an edited book

Acioli-Santos, B.; Vieira, H.E.E.; Lima, C.E.P.; Maia, L.C. The Molecular Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Essence in Association: A Review of Differentially Expressed Fungal Genes During Symbiosis Formation. In Diversity and Biotechnology of Ectomycorrhizae; Rai, M., Varma, A., Eds.; Soil Biology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp. 87–121 ISBN 9783642151958.

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 Research and Public Health.

Blog post

Davis, J. Rats Able To Use Tools In The Lab Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rats-able-to-use-tools-in-the-lab/ (accessed on 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 Follow-up Review of the IR Maverick Program; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1983;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Comorau, N. Postcolonial Refashionings: Reading Forms, Reading Novels. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2009.

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

Billard, M. Silent Partners No Longer. New York Times 2012, E1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Abbreviation	Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health
ISSN (online)	1660-4601
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health