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

Kaiser J (2000) ECOLOGY: When Do Many Species Matter? Science (New York, NY) 289, 1283.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turgeon SC, Creaser RA (2008) Cretaceous oceanic anoxic event 2 triggered by a massive magmatic episode. Nature 454, 323–326.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rieping W, Habeck M, Nilges M (2005) Inferential structure determination. Science (New York, NY) 309, 303–306.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Winckler P, Lartigue L, Giannone G, De Giorgi F, Ichas F, Sibarita J-B, Lounis B, Cognet L (2013) Identification and super-resolution imaging of ligand-activated receptor dimers in live cells. Scientific Reports 3, 2387.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adamczyk B (2017) ‘Foundations of Electromagnetic Compatibility.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Mantoiu M, Raikov G, Tiedra de Aldecoa R (Eds) (2016) ‘Spectral Theory and Mathematical Physics.’ (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Penkova T (2014) Method of Wellbeing Estimation in Territory Management. ‘Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014: 14th International Conference, Guimarães, Portugal, June 30 – July 3, 2014, Proceedings, Part IV’. (Eds B Murgante, S Misra, AMAC Rocha, C Torre, JG Rocha, MI Falcão, D Taniar, BO Apduhan, O Gervasi) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. pp. 57–68. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

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

Davis J (2017) Exxon Mobil Shareholders Pass Historic Climate Motion. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/exxon-mobil-shareholders-pass-historic-climate-motion/.

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 (1991) Government Vehicles: Officials Now Rarely Receive Unauthorized Home-to-work Transportation. U.S. Government Printing Office, GGD-91-27. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fischer BC (2017) Toward Understanding Resonant Volcanic Seismic Signals: Modelling Bubbly Flow in Magma. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Zajac MK (2014) Stars of Their Own Screenplay. New York Times ST16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kaiser 2000; Turgeon and Creaser 2008).

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

Two authors: (Turgeon and Creaser 2008)
Three or more authors: (Winckler et al. 2013)

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