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Suggested Citations for the DHQ II & Diet*Calc

Alternate Version Available

You are viewing the web site for DHQ II. The latest version for the U.S. is the DHQ III; however, DHQ III does not yet have a Canadian version. The Canadian version of DHQ II is still available.

Use of the Diet History Questionnaire and Diet*Calc Analysis Software for publication purposes should contain a citation which includes version information for the software, questionnaire, and nutrient database. The Diet*Calc software includes a version-specific citation in About Diet*Calc (select About from the Help menu).

The citations shown below are provided as templates; adjust the version information and dates as necessary.

  • Diet*Calc Analysis Program, Version 1.5.0. National Cancer Institute, Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program. October 2012.
  • Diet History Questionnaire, Version 2.0. National Institutes of Health, Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, National Cancer Institute. 2010.
  • DHQ Nutrient Database. dhq2.database.092914.csv. National Cancer Institute, Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program.