How to format your references using the Current Environmental Health Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Environmental Health Reports. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Butler D. Institutes prepare for pioneering bioinformatics work. Nature. 2001;412:106.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kosak ST, Groudine M. Gene order and dynamic domains. Science. 2004;306:644–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lake BM, Salakhutdinov R, Tenenbaum JB. Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction. Science. 2015;350:1332–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Behrens TEJ, Hunt LT, Woolrich MW, Rushworth MFS. Associative learning of social value. Nature. 2008;456:245–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Baldwin CJ. The 10 Principles of Food Industry Sustainability. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Härdle W. Multivariate Statistics: Exercises and Solutions. Hlávka Z, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cheli F, Tarsitano D, Mapelli F. Inverter Losses Reduction Control Techniques for Plug-In HEV and FEV Traction Drive. In: Meyer G, Valldorf J, editors. Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2010: Smart Systems for Green Cars and Safe Mobility. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 29–38.

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 Current Environmental Health Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Nike’s “Back To The Future II” Self-Lacing Trainers Are Coming In November [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nikes-back-to-the-future-ii-selflacing-trainers-are-coming-in-november/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. B-2 Bomber: Contract Structure and Selected Provisions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Aug. Report No.: NSIAD-90-230FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cashion AT. Exploring Dielectric Absorption: Data Collection System Development [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2010.

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. Kolomatsky M. Mom and Pop Own Fewer Rentals. New York Times. 2017 Aug 31;RE2.

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	Current Environmental Health Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Environ. Health Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-5412
Scope