How to format your references using the Australian Journal of Primary Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Journal of Primary 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

Penzias AA (2010) A runaway success. Nature 467, S4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Garcia CM, Ramirez E (2005) Evidence that sensory traps can evolve into honest signals. Nature 434, 501–505.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fowler AG, Devitt SJ, Jones C (2013) Surface code implementation of block code state distillation. Scientific Reports 3, 1939.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zenkin N, Naryshkina T, Kuznedelov K, Severinov K (2006) The mechanism of DNA replication primer synthesis by RNA polymerase. Nature 439, 617–620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harris J (2013) ‘The Utopian Globalists.’ (Blackwell Publishing Ltd: Oxford)

An edited book

Giardi MT, Rea G, Berra B (Eds) (2010) ‘Bio-Farms for Nutraceuticals: Functional Food and Safety Control by Biosensors.’ (Springer US: Boston, MA)

A chapter in an edited book

Li P, Fang S-C (2010) Chebyshev Approximation of Inconsistent Fuzzy Relational Equations with Max-T Composition. ‘Fuzzy Optimization: Recent Advances and Applications’. (Eds WA Lodwick, J Kacprzyk) Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. pp. 109–124. (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

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 Australian Journal of Primary Health.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) Discovery Of Cosmic Web Feeding A Protogalaxy Could Reveal How Galaxies Form. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mystery-how-galaxies-formed-possibly-solved-discovery-cosmic-web-feeding-protogalaxy/.

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 (2010) Aviation Security: DHS Has Taken Steps to Enhance International Aviation Security and Facilitate Compliance with International Standards, but Challenges Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-11-238T. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nunn TN (2014) A Puer–Senex Archetypal Model of the Therapeutic Relationship. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Lee L (2008) A New Turn on Old Pots. New York Times F3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Penzias 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Garcia and Ramirez 2005; Penzias 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Garcia and Ramirez 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zenkin et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Journal of Primary Health
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Prim. Health
ISSN (print)	1448-7527
ISSN (online)	1836-7399
Scope	Health Policy Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health