How to format your references using the Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine. 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 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. Boughman JW. Divergent sexual selection enhances reproductive isolation in sticklebacks. Nature. 2001;411:944–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rajagopalan H, Lengauer C. Aneuploidy and cancer. Nature. 2004;432:338–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schroeder JI, Kwak JM, Allen GJ. Guard cell abscisic acid signalling and engineering drought hardiness in plants. Nature. 2001;410:327–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Woodcroft BJ, Singleton CM, Boyd JA, Evans PN, Emerson JB, Zayed AAF, et al. Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost. Nature. 2018;560:49–54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bojar RM. Manual of Perioperative Care in Adult Cardiac Surgery. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Cimino G, Gavagnin M, editors. Molluscs: From Chemo-ecological Study to Biotechnological Application. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Greenberg I, Xu D, Kumar D. Creating Across Time and Curved Space. In: Xu D, Kumar D, editors. Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2013. p. 107–47.

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 Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine.

Blog post

1. Taub B. 2,500-Year-Old Man Wrapped In Cannabis “Shroud” Discovered In Ancient Chinese Tomb [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/2500-year-old-man-wrapped-in-cannabis-shroud-discovered-in-ancient-chinese-tomb/. 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. Homeland Security: Weak Oversight of Human Resources Information Technology Investment Needs Considerable Improvement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Feb. Report No.: GAO-16-407T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Clement TE. The makings of digital modernism: Rereading Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans” and poetry by Elsa von Freytag -Loringhoven [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Schwirtz M, Winerip M. In Beatings, Inmates Feared a ‘Captain America.’ New York Times. 2015 Oct 2;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	Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
Abbreviation	Environ. Health Prev. Med.
ISSN (print)	1342-078X
ISSN (online)	1347-4715
Scope	General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health