How to format your references using the Annals of Global Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Global Health. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Florig HK. Public health. Is safe mail worth the price? Science. 2002;295(5559):1467-1468.

A journal article with 2 authors

May M, Davis J. Preparing for the worst. Nature. 2006;443(7114):907-908.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kiss IZ, Zhai Y, Hudson JL. Emerging coherence in a population of chemical oscillators. Science. 2002;296(5573):1676-1678.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang Y, Sun CM, Hu XQ, Zhao Y. Relationship between melatonin receptor 1B and insulin receptor substrate 1 polymorphisms with gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hewitt A. Construction Claims & Responses. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Zeng D, ed. Applied Informatics and Communication: International Conference, ICAIC 2011,Xi’an, China, August 20-21, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Vol 224. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosenblum N. Rethinking the French Liberal Moment: Some Thoughts on the Heterogeneous Origins of Lefort and Gauchet’s Social Philosophy. In: Sawyer SW, Stewart I, eds. In Search of the Liberal Moment: Democracy, Anti-Totalitarianism, and Intellectual Politics in France since 1950. Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016:61-83.

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 Annals of Global Health.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Science Of ‘Hangry’, Or Why Some People Get Grumpy When They’re Hungry. IFLScience.

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. Theft From Airline Passenger Baggage. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reich LM. Adapted Physical Education Teachers’ Attitudes towards Their Students with Hidden and Visible Disabilities. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Brantley B. Pain, Protest and Resistance. New York Times. October 17, 2017:C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Annals of Global Health
Abbreviation	Ann. Glob. Health
ISSN (print)	2214-9996
Scope