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

Rahmstorf S. Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000 years. Nature. 2002 Sep 12;419(6903):207–14.

A journal article with 2 authors

Callan B, Gillespie I. The path to new medicines. Nature. 2007 Sep 13;449(7159):164–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Butov LV, Gossard AC, Chemla DS. Macroscopically ordered state in an exciton system. Nature. 2002 Aug 15;418(6899):751–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sales BC, Saparov B, McGuire MA, Singh DJ, Parker DS. Ferromagnetism of Fe3Sn and alloys. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 12;4:7024.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saksena FB. Patient Studies in Valvular, Congenital, and Rarer Forms of Cardiovascular Disease. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Baez JC, May JP, editors. Towards Higher Categories. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. XIII, 283 p. (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications; vol. 152).

A chapter in an edited book

Veevers N, Allison P. The Badge Schemes. In: Allison P, editor. Kurt Hahn: Inspirational, Visionary, Outdoor and Experiential Educator. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011. p. 37–45.

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

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Ancient Meteorite Sheds Light On The Early Solar System’s Magnetic Field. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-meteorite-sheds-light-early-solar-systems-magnetic-field/

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. Student Mentoring Programs: Education’s Monitoring and Information Sharing Could Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Jun. Report No.: GAO-04-581.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ogawa N. A Man Walks into the World [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Paulson M. Jonathan Groff to Sing Bobby Darin Songs. New York Times. 2017 Jun 28;C3.

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