Style Request: EcoHealth journal

Dear all,

I would like to submit an article to the EcoHealth journal. Unfortunately, I cannot find the citation style on Zotero (the journal only provides style with Endnote format). I would be very grateful if someone could help me and create the citation style.

I used the CSL tool to identify the most similar style but it finds no result :-s.

These are the instructions:
Citations: The “Author Date” system should be used for reference citations in the text. List multiple references by year and, within years, by alphabetical order. For example: (Bardach, 1982; Memon, 1982; Leonard, 1989, 1990; Smit, 1989a,b; McMichael et al., 1999). For citations of works by more than two authors, use the first author followed by “et al.”

References:
List references alphabetically by the last name of the first author. If the first author has more than one publication listed, list references in alphabetical order of subsequent authors last names. If the first author shares the last name with another first author (Smith JM vs. Smith RB), alphabetize by initials. If you list more than one publication by the same author/group of authors, arrange publications by date, early to late. If you list more than one publication published in the same year by the same author/group of authors, use a, b, c, d, and so on to distinguish the publications.
All references must include: Author/editor last name plus initials or authoring agency for all authors. Do not use et al. Year of publication, Full title of article or chapter (lower case),Title of journal (do not abbreviate journal titles) or book/proceedings italicized and in title case, City/state/country of publication: Name of publisher, Volume and inclusive page numbers,

And here are some examples:
1. Journal article with DOI reference
Skelly C, Weinstein P (2003) Pathogen survival trajectories: an eco- environmental approach to the
modelling of human Campylobacteriosis ecology. Environmental Health Perspectives 111:19–28; DOI:10.1289/ehp.5312 [Online November 7, 2002]
2. Book
Aguirre AA, Ostfeld RS, Tabor GM, House C, Pearl MC (2002) Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice, New York: Oxford University Press
Link toward to a freely available paper formatted with the EcoHealth style: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10393-014-0990-3

This is the link toward the author’s guidelines.
http://www.ecohealth.net/pdf/ECH_Author_Info.pdf

The ISSN of the journal are the followings:
ISSN:
1612-9202 (Print)
1612-9210 (Electronic)

Thank you very very much in advance.

Best regards.
  • If the CSL tool finds no results, you're using it incorrectly. It always does. Note that you have to use the citation information displayed on the left to format the citation -- you can't just paste in any citation.

    That's the reason we also ask you to format the specific examples (the Campbel and Petersen article and the Mares chapter) given on https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles in the style you're requesting. Again, just any book and article citation doesn't really help.

    All that said, https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=Springer%20Basic%20%28author-date%29 looks like it'd be a pretty good match.
  • Sorry, it is the first time I face this problem and I did not understand that I add to adapt the selected references with the EcoHealth style. Doing this I found a citation style almost identical to the one required (Springer Basic (author-date, no "et al.") for those interested). Thank you for your help despite my clumsiness.

    Best regards.
  • (if you look at the journal article you linked to, they do seem to use et al., though)
  • I know but on the Author guidelines it is expressly written :
    "All references must include: Author/editor last name plus initials or authoring agency for all authors. Do not use et al."
    Also, on the the article I mentioned, they write the journal title in italic whereas on the examples given in the Author guidelines they do not use italic...
  • ugh -- and then they go ahead and use et al. in their first example reference... but yes, probably safer to not use it then.
  • Yes, strange.

    In any case thank you for your help !

    Have a nice day.
  • edited August 3, 2015
    The journal is published by Springer: http://www.springer.com/public+health/journal/10393 . Thus, I guess the style is exactly the same. @adamsmith: Can you do the corresponding linking in the repo?
  • we now have the journal up under the correct name, but it's the same style you identified, so no need for you to switch.
  • I suspect that " all authors not et al " is for the review process not the publication format. That does't explain the counter-example given.

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