How to format your references using the Annual Review of Public Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Public 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	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 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

Macilwain C. 2012. What matters for science is who runs the country. Nature. 488(7413):559

A journal article with 2 authors

Teh O-K, Moore I. 2007. An ARF-GEF acting at the Golgi and in selective endocytosis in polarized plant cells. Nature. 448(7152):493–96

A journal article with 3 authors

Sneddon JB, Borowiak M, Melton DA. 2012. Self-renewal of embryonic-stem-cell-derived progenitors by organ-matched mesenchyme. Nature. 491(7426):765–68

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kim KS, Zhao Y, Jang H, Lee SY, Kim JM, et al. 2009. Large-scale pattern growth of graphene films for stretchable transparent electrodes. Nature. 457(7230):706–10

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thie PR, Keough GE. 2008. An Introduction to Linear Programming and Game Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kapucu N, Liou KT, eds. 2014. Disaster and Development: Examining Global Issues and Cases. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XIX, 469 p. 34 illus., 19 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Fletcher JG, Bharucha AE, Siddiki H. 2008. Dynamic MR Imaging of the Pelvic Floor. In Imaging Pelvic Floor Disorders, ed SA Taylor, JOL DeLancey, pp. 75–88. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Public Health.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2015. NASA Turns Black Hole Telescope Onto the Sun To Capture X-rays From Microflares. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-turns-black-hole-telescope-sun-capture-x-rays-microflares/

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. 2009. Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center: Clarifying Rationale for the Research and Development Funding Decisions Would Increase Accountability. GAO-09-339R, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mosbacker HL. 2008. Control of Electrical Transport Mechanisms at Metal-Zinc Oxide Interfaces by Subsurface Defect Engineering with Remote Plasma Treatment. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Ohio State University

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

Billard M. 2013. Revisiting the Classics Of an Earlier Generation. New York Times, Oct. 3, p. E7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (3, 6–8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Public Health
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Public Health
ISSN (print)	0163-7525
ISSN (online)	1545-2093
Scope	General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health