How to format your references using the EcoHealth citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EcoHealth. 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

Sastry S (2001) The relationship between fragility, configurational entropy and the potential energy landscape of glass-forming liquids. Nature 409:164–167

A journal article with 2 authors

Vasseur DA, Fox JW (2009) Phase-locking and environmental fluctuations generate synchrony in a predator-prey community. Nature 460:1007–1010

A journal article with 3 authors

Ginzberg MB, Kafri R, Kirschner M (2015) Cell biology. On being the right (cell) size. Science 348:1245075

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Watts RD, Compton RW, McCammon JH, Rich CL, Wright SM, Owens T, Ouren DS (2007) Roadless space of the conterminous United States. Science 316:736–738

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zecchina A, Califano S (2017) The Development of Catalysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Ochoa G, Chicano F (eds) (2015) Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 15th European Conference, EvoCOP 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8-10, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Knight J (2014) Is Internationalisation of Higher Education Having an Identity Crisis? In: Maldonado-Maldonado A, Bassett RM (eds) The Forefront of International Higher Education: A Festschrift in Honor of Philip G. Altbach. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 75–87

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 EcoHealth.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Pilot Films Mind-Blowing Time-lapse Video Of The Milky Way. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/pilot-films-mindblowing-timelapse-video-of-the-milky-way/. 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

Government Accountability Office (2011) Space Acquisitions: DOD Delivering New Generations of Satellites, but Space System Acquisition Challenges Remain. 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

Dilenschneider AM (2010) Refusing to be put aside: Women and the meaning of betrayal. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Feeney K (2010) Charleston Chews And Sugar Babies: Fistfuls of Nostalgia. New York Times NJ11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sastry 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Sastry 2001; Vasseur and Fox 2009).

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

Two authors: (Vasseur and Fox 2009)
Three or more authors: (Watts et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	EcoHealth
Abbreviation	Ecohealth
ISSN (print)	1612-9202
ISSN (online)	1612-9210
Scope	Ecology Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis