How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Health Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Health Sciences. 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

[1]

P. Pincus, PHASE TRANSITIONS: Y’s and Ends, Science 290 (2000) 1307–1308.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.T. Kosak, M. Groudine, Gene order and dynamic domains, Science 306 (2004) 644–647.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Lee, Y.-C. Cheng, G.R. Fleming, Coherence dynamics in photosynthesis: protein protection of excitonic coherence, Science 316 (2007) 1462–1465.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.R. Savina, A.M. Davis, C.E. Tripa, M.J. Pellin, R. Gallino, R.S. Lewis, S. Amari, Extinct technetium in silicon carbide stardust grains: implications for stellar nucleosynthesis, Science 303 (2004) 649–652.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.G. Higgs, T.K. Attwood, Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Malden, MA USA, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

D.K. Mandal, C.S. Syan, eds., CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on CARs & FoF 2016, Springer India, New Delhi, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. van den Bosch, C. Cochior, M. Ezzeldin, P. Groot, P. Lucas, J. Verriet, R. Waarsing, S. Weiland, Adaptive Control Strategies for Productive Toner Printers, in: T. Basten, R. Hamberg, F. Reckers, J. Verriet (Eds.), Model-Based Design of Adaptive Embedded Systems, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 87–123.

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 Asian Journal of Health Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Science Of Doping And How Cheating Athletes Pass Drug Tests, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/science-doping-and-how-cheating-athletes-pass-drug-tests/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Mission Support Project: Analyzing User Requirements for Assignment Management Tasks, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.-L. Boudreau, Chanter en français en Louisiane: Du passé vers le futur, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2014.

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

[1]

M.J.O. Murphy, Ethel M. Smyth, Opera Composer, Met a Chorus of Critical Disdain in 1903, New York Times (2016) C27.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Asian Journal of Health Sciences
ISSN (print)	1878-5263
Scope