How to format your references using the Bangladesh Journal of Child Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bangladesh Journal of Child 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Smaglik P. Closing the gap. Nature. 2005 Jan 20;433(7023):335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Delaval B, Doxsey S. Genetics. Dwarfism, where pericentrin gains stature. Science. 2008 Feb 8;319(5864):732–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Minamimoto T, Hori Y, Kimura M. Complementary process to response bias in the centromedian nucleus of the thalamus. Science. 2005 Jun 17;308(5729):1798–801.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ascher DB, Wielens J, Nero TL, Doughty L, Morton CJ, Parker MW. Potent hepatitis C inhibitors bind directly to NS5A and reduce its affinity for RNA. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr 23;4:4765.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Callard F, Sartorius N, Arboleda-Flórez J, Bartlett P, Helmchen H, Stuart H, et al. Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Campardo G, Tiziani F, Iaculo M, editors. Memory Mass Storage. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. XXVII, 479 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Ljung K, de Vos A, Cook A, Weinstein P. An Overview of Medical Geology Issues in Australia and Oceania. In: Selinus O, Finkelman RB, Centeno JA, editors. Medical Geology: A Regional Synthesis. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 107–34.

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 Bangladesh Journal of Child Health.

Blog post

Carpineti A. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Scientists Use Snail Genomics To Fight Deadly Parasitic Disease. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-use-snail-genomics-to-fight-deadly-parasitic-disease/

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. Automatic Data Processing Policies, Procedures, and Practices at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971 Jun. Report No.: B-162407(6).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brasseaux S. The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet and Land Changes in Louisiana Deltaic Plain, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

Johnson G. Dark Matter’s Deep Reach. New York Times. 2015 Apr 21;D4.

In-text citations

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

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	Bangladesh Journal of Child Health
Abbreviation	Banglad. J. Child Health
ISSN (print)	0257-3490
Scope