How to format your references using the Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Greenberg DS. Science and society. On the road to academic greatness--a parable. Science. 2007;317:1328–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Liu X, Duncan JH. The effects of surfactants on spilling breaking waves. Nature. 2003;421:520–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gonzalez S, Kitchener AC, Lister AM. Survival of the Irish elk into the Holocene. Nature. 2000;405:753–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Masopust D, Vezys V, Marzo AL, Lefrançois L. Preferential localization of effector memory cells in nonlymphoid tissue. Science. 2001;291:2413–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Williams T, Turton V. Trading Economics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Alagar VS. Specification of Software Systems. 2nd Edition. Periyasamy K, editor. London: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Martinez-Guerra R, Mata-Machuca JL. Fault detection in a belt-drive system. In: Mata-Machuca JL, editor. Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Nonlinear Systems: A Differential and Algebraic Viewpoint. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 67–74.

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 Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Intelligent Dressing Glows When Wounds Are Infected. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Airport Improvement Program: Opportunity to Consider FAA’s Role in Meeting Airport System Needs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 May. Report No.: T-RCED-93-43.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Calhoun GF. Limit theory for overfit models [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 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

1. Barboza D. Chinese Giant Rose on a Web Of Family Ties. New York Times. 2017 Jul 19;A1.

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	Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Health Sci. Eng.
ISSN (online)	2052-336X
Scope	Environmental Engineering Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution Waste Management and Disposal Water Science and Technology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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