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

Linden DJ (2003) Neuroscience. From molecules to memory in the cerebellum. Science (New York, NY) 301, 1682–1685.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jackson JB, Johnson KG (2001) Paleoecology. Measuring past biodiversity. Science (New York, NY) 293, 2401–2404.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aziz T, Stein J, Yogeshwar R (2011) Animal testing: TV or not TV? Nature 470, 457–459.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Marahatta A, Bhandary B, Jeong S-K, Kim H-R, Chae H-J (2014) Soybean greatly reduces valproic acid plasma concentrations: a food-drug interaction study. Scientific Reports 4, 4362.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell D (2009) ‘Building Contract Claims.’ (Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK)

An edited book

Rao KS (2015) ‘Language Identification Using Excitation Source Features.’ (D Nandi, Ed.). (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Dao TH (2011) Extracellular Enzymes in Sensing Environmental Nutrients and Ecosystem Changes: Ligand Mediation in Organic Phosphorus Cycling. ‘Soil Enzymology’. (Eds G Shukla, A Varma) Soil Biology. pp. 75–102. (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

Andrew E (2015) New Eye Drops Can Dissolve Cataracts With No Need For Surgery. 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 (1977) Comments on Senate Bill 991, A Bill to Establish a Department of Education. U.S. Government Printing Office, B-149737. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Randolph JL (2017) A Mixed-Methods Investigation of FMS Shoulder Mobility and Reported Upper Body Injury in Collegiate Football Athletes at a Division II Midwestern University. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Williams J (2017) New Life for an Immortal Story. New York Times BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Linden 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Jackson and Johnson 2001; Linden 2003).

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

Two authors: (Jackson and Johnson 2001)
Three or more authors: (Marahatta et al. 2014)

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