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

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

Weimerskirch H. Ecology. Seabirds--individuals in colonies. Science. 2013 Jul 5;341(6141):35–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mohd-Sarip A, Verrijzer CP. Molecular biology. A higher order of silence. Science. 2004 Nov 26;306(5701):1484–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Franke KJ, Schulze G, Pascual JI. Competition of superconducting phenomena and Kondo screening at the nanoscale. Science. 2011 May 20;332(6032):940–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Slon V, Mafessoni F, Vernot B, de Filippo C, Grote S, Viola B, et al. The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. Nature. 2018 Sep;561(7721):113–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazimierczuk MK. RF Power Amplifiers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Chung SH, Andersen OS, Krishnamurthy V, editors. Biological Membrane Ion Channels: Dynamics, Structure, and Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2007. XIV, 658 p. 168 illus. (Biological And Medical Physics Biomedical Engineering).

A chapter in an edited book

Goto M, Sueyoshi T. Financial Ratio Analysis: An Application to US Energy Industry. In: Lee JD, Heshmati A, editors. Productivity, Efficiency, and Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD; 2009. p. 59–79. (Contributions to Economics).

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 Rural Health.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Four Myths About IVF In Older Women [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/four-myths-about-ivf-in-older-women/

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. Transportation Disadvantaged Populations: Nonemergency Medical Transportation Not Well Coordinated, and Additional Federal Leadership Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Dec. Report No.: GAO-15-110.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Green SW. The influence of satisfaction among African American males on community college choices [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2015.

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

Kolomatsky M. Singles in the House. New York Times. 2017 Sep 28;RE2.

In-text citations

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

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	Australian Journal of Rural Health
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Rural Health
ISSN (print)	1038-5282
ISSN (online)	1440-1584
Scope	Family Practice Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health