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

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

Fortey, R., 2001. Evolution. The Cambrian explosion exploded? Science 293, 438–439.

A journal article with 2 authors

Macnaghten, P., Owen, R., 2011. Environmental science: good governance for geoengineering. Nature 479, 293.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Loenhout, M.T.J., de Grunt, M.V., Dekker, C., 2012. Dynamics of DNA supercoils. Science 338, 94–97.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang, M.-Q., Zhang, Y., Zhang, N., Tang, Z.-R., Xu, Y.-J., 2013. Visible-light-driven oxidation of primary C-H bonds over CdS with dual co-catalysts graphene and TiO2. Sci. Rep. 3, 3314.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Labadie, N., Prins, C., Prodhon, C., 2016. Metaheuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gupta, P.K., Khare, R. (Eds.), 2015. Laser Physics and Technology: Proceedings of the School on Laser Physics & Technology, Indore, India, March 12-30, 2012, Springer Proceedings in Physics. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

D’Mello, S., Graesser, A., 2006. Affect Detection from Human-Computer Dialogue with an Intelligent Tutoring System, in: Gratch, J., Young, M., Aylett, R., Ballin, D., Olivier, P. (Eds.), Intelligent Virtual Agents: 6th International Conference, IVA 2006, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, August 21-23, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 54–67.

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 Hygiene and Environmental Health.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. This Is How SpaceX Plans To Land On Mars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1995. Meteorological Satellites (No. NSIAD-95-87R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hoscoe, B.T., 2014. Assistive technology and the promotion of inclusion for special needs children in public schools: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Mueller, B., Baker, A.L., 2016. Death, Mistrust and Too Few Officers. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fortey, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Fortey, 2001; Macnaghten and Owen, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Macnaghten and Owen, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
Abbreviation	Int. J. Hyg. Environ. Health
ISSN (print)	1438-4639
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health