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

Hertz, N. Recession Watch: Cooperation Must Rule. Nature 2009, 457, 962–963.

A journal article with 2 authors

Channell, R.; Lomolino, M.V. Dynamic Biogeography and Conservation of Endangered Species. Nature 2000, 403, 84–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hilgenkamp, H.; Moshchalkov, V.V.; Kes, P. Physics. Flux Quanta on the Move. Science 2003, 302, 1159–1160.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Boyer, V.; Marino, A.M.; Pooser, R.C.; Lett, P.D. Entangled Images from Four-Wave Mixing. Science 2008, 321, 544–547.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, C. An Introduction to LTE; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2014; ISBN 9781118818046.

An edited book

Hava, D. Charismatic Leadership in Singapore: Three Extraordinary People; Kwok-bun, C., Ed.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2012; ISBN 9781461414506.

A chapter in an edited book

Costamagna, J.A.; Isaacs, M.; Aguirre, M.J.; Ramírez, G.; Azocar, I. Electroreduction of CO2 Catalyzed by Metallomacrocyclics. In N4-Macrocyclic Metal Complexes; Zagal, J.H., Bedioui, F., Dodelet, J.-P., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2006; pp. 191–254 ISBN 9780387284293.

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, D. Stardust Trapped Deep Within The Ocean Reveals A 2.6-Million-Year-Old Mystery (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 Information Technology: Selected Agencies’ Use of Commercial Off-the-Shelf Software for Human Resources Functions; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yobby, J. Application of Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Thermodynamic Fluids Designs. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University: Edwardsville, IL, 2017.

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

Grynbaum, M.M.; Herrman, J. Breitbart Gains Voice in White House. New York Times 2016, B1.

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