How to format your references using the International Journal of Environmental Health Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 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

Bower GC. 2007. Astronomy. Mining for the ephemeral. Science. 318(5851):759–760.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ganachaud A, Wunsch C. 2000. Improved estimates of global ocean circulation, heat transport and mixing from hydrographic data. Nature. 408(6811):453–457.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ben-David O, Rubinstein SM, Fineberg J. 2010. Slip-stick and the evolution of frictional strength. Nature. 463(7277):76–79.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Nishiyama M, Hoshino A, Tsai L, Henley JR, Goshima Y, Tessier-Lavigne M, Poo M-M, Hong K. 2003. Cyclic AMP/GMP-dependent modulation of Ca2+ channels sets the polarity of nerve growth-cone turning. Nature. 423(6943):990–995.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Merritt C. 2015. Process Steam Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cazals F, Kornprobst P, editors. 2013. Modeling in Computational Biology and Biomedicine: A Multidisciplinary Endeavor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Katz M, Shaikovsky I. 2011. Rich Input and Select Components. In: Shaikovsky I, editor. Practical RichFaces. Berkeley, CA: Apress; p. 95–132.

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 International Journal of Environmental Health Research.

Blog post

Davis J. 2016. Bacteria Found In Poop Is Linked To The Body Fat Surrounding Organs. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bacteria-found-in-poop-is-linked-to-the-body-fat-surrounding-organs/

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. 2017. Health Information Technology: HHS Should Assess the Effectiveness of Its Efforts to Enhance Patient Access to and Use of Electronic Health Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reyes-Rodriguez GJ. 2013. Nucleophilic additions to a para-benzyne derived from an enediyne: Exploring the non-radical reactivity of a diradical [Doctoral dissertation]. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Landler M, Alcindor Y. 2017. Condolence Call to Widow Ignites Trump Imbroglio. New York Times.:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bower 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ganachaud and Wunsch 2000; Bower 2007).

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

Two authors: (Ganachaud and Wunsch 2000)
Three or more authors: (Nishiyama et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Environmental Health Research
Abbreviation	Int. J. Environ. Health Res.
ISSN (print)	0960-3123
ISSN (online)	1369-1619
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health