How to format your references using the Environmental Health Perspectives citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). 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

Grantham J. 2012. Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary). Nature 491: 303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zanetti M, Mahadevan NR. 2012. Cancer. Immune surveillance from chromosomal chaos? Science 337: 1616–1617.

A journal article with 3 authors

Klahr D, Zimmerman C, Jirout J. 2011. Educational interventions to advance children’s scientific thinking. Science 333: 971–975.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Goldsmith BR, Coroneus JG, Khalap VR, Kane AA, Weiss GA, Collins PG. 2007. Conductance-controlled point functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Science 315: 77–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li W. 2004. Risk Assessment of Power Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.:Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Figueiredo M. 2013. Reference-Free CMOS Pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converters. J. Goes and G. Evans, eds. Springer:New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bertolo S. 2008. Information Overload and FP7 Funding Opportunities in 2009-10. In: Inductive Logic Programming: 18th International Conference, ILP 2008 Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-12, 2008 Proceedings (F. Železný and N. Lavrač, eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer:Berlin, Heidelberg. 5–5.

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 Perspectives.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2016. Peeing While Swimming Is OK If You’re A Fish. IFLScience. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/peeing-while-swimming-is-ok-if-youre-a-fish/ [accessed 30 October 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. 1988. Space Exploration: Cost, Schedule, and Performance of NASA’s Mars Observer Mission.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Small CR. 2013. An investigation on the effect(s) of different modes of intervention for weight management on HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol production among United States veterans. 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

Kanter J. 2016. Bucking Resistance, Canada and E.U. Sign Trade Deal. New York Times, October 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grantham 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Grantham 2012; Zanetti and Mahadevan 2012).

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

Two authors: (Zanetti and Mahadevan 2012)
Three or more authors: (Goldsmith et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Health Perspectives
Abbreviation	Environ. Health Perspect.
ISSN (print)	0091-6765
ISSN (online)	1552-9924
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health