How to format your references using the Conflict and Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Conflict and 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

1. Sassone-Corsi P. Physiology. When metabolism and epigenetics converge. Science. 2013;339:148–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cheng Z, Menees TM. RNA branching and debranching in the yeast retrovirus-like element Ty1. Science. 2004;303:240–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nawae W, Hannongbua S, Ruengjitchatchawalya M. Defining the membrane disruption mechanism of kalata B1 via coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3933.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Steele IA, Mundell CG, Smith RJ, Kobayashi S, Guidorzi C. Ten per cent polarized optical emission from GRB 090102. Nature. 2009;462:767–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Malpass DB. Introduction to Industrial Polyethylene. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Rhodes J. The q-theory of Finite Semigroups. Steinberg B, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fulekar MH. Bioremediation Technology for Hazardous Wastes - Recent Advances. In: Fulekar MH, editor. Bioremediation Technology: Recent Advances. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 135–66.

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 Conflict and Health.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. This 3D Printer Uses Glass For Ink. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Student Testing: Issues Related to Voluntary National Mathematics and Reading Tests. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Jun. Report No.: HEHS-98-163.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gonzalez AX. Échale Ganas: Engaging, Educating, and Empowering Latino Males at Four-Year Institutions [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

1. Pilon M. ‘Everyone Wants to See Zara.’ New York Times. 2012 Jul 31;B13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Conflict and Health
Abbreviation	Confl. Health
ISSN (online)	1752-1505
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health(social science)