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

Tyler, R.H. Strong Ocean Tidal Flow and Heating on Moons of the Outer Planets. Nature 2008, 456, 770–772.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gupta, V.; Poss, K.D. Clonally Dominant Cardiomyocytes Direct Heart Morphogenesis. Nature 2012, 484, 479–484.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamashita, Y.M.; Jones, D.L.; Fuller, M.T. Orientation of Asymmetric Stem Cell Division by the APC Tumor Suppressor and Centrosome. Science 2003, 301, 1547–1550.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stinchcombe, J.C.; Majorovits, E.; Bossi, G.; Fuller, S.; Griffiths, G.M. Centrosome Polarization Delivers Secretory Granules to the Immunological Synapse. Nature 2006, 443, 462–465.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vanclef, J. The Wealth Code 2.0; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118645611.

An edited book

History of Nordic Computing 2: Second IFIP WG 9.7 Conference, HiNC2, Turku, Finland, August 21-23, 2007, Revised Selected Papers; Impagliazzo, J., Järvi, T., Paju, P., Eds.; IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 303; ISBN 9783642037566.

A chapter in an edited book

Alvermann, D.E.; Mallozzi, C.A. Moving Beyond the Gold Standard: Epistemological and Ontological Considerations of Research in Science Literacy. In Quality Research in Literacy and Science Education: International Perspectives and Gold Standards; Shelley, M.C., Yore, L.D., Hand, B., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2009; pp. 63–81 ISBN 9781402084263.

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

Andrew, E. The Unknown Crocodiles Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/unknown-crocodiles/ (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 Agricultural Research and Development and Extension Activities; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1982;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pezzolesi, M.G. Novel Mechanisms of PTEN Dysfunction in PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndromes. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2008.

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, D. STEAL THIS REVIEW. New York Times 1990, 719.

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