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

Gottschling DE. Molecular biology. Fragile delivery to the genome. Science. 2012 Jul 13;337(6091):160–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heinz J, Idsardi W. Psychology. Sentence and word complexity. Science. 2011 Jul 15;333(6040):295–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gong SS, Zhu W, Sheng DN. Emergent chiral spin liquid: fractional quantum Hall effect in a kagome Heisenberg model. Sci Rep. 2014 Sep 10;4:6317.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen J, Wang F, Huang Q, Hu L, Song X, Deng J, et al. Effectively control negative thermal expansion of single-phase ferroelectrics of PbTiO3-(Bi,La)FeO3 over a giant range. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2458.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Graham L. Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Cavallini G, Paulis G, editors. Peyronie’s Disease: A Comprehensive Guide. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. VI, 169 p. 56 illus., 46 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Smith L. Evidence-Oriented Practice. In: Smith L, editor. Clinical Practice at the Edge of Care: Developments in Working with At-Risk Children and their Families. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 49–78.

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

Andrew E. What Happens When A Man In A Mentos Suit Jumps Into A Tank Of Diet Coke? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/what-happens-when-man-mentos-suit-jumps-tank-diet-coke/

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. Surface Transportation: Department of Transportation Should Measure the Overall Performance and Outcomes of the TIGER Discretionary Grant Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Sep. Report No.: GAO-14-766.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Norton S. The effects of leadership-efficacy and personality on reactions to stress [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Feeling Blah? There’s a Book About That. New York Times. 2017 Jan 8;C2.

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