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. Laughlin RB. Physics. The cup of the hand. Science. 2004;303:1475–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sanderson WC, Scherbov S. Average remaining lifetimes can increase as human populations age. Nature. 2005;435:811–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nishimura EK, Granter SR, Fisher DE. Mechanisms of hair graying: incomplete melanocyte stem cell maintenance in the niche. Science. 2005;307:720–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kim M, Ogawa M, Fujita Y, Yoshikawa Y, Nagai T, Koyama T, et al. Bacteria hijack integrin-linked kinase to stabilize focal adhesions and block cell detachment. Nature. 2009;459:578–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kääriäinen T, Cameron D, Kääriäinen M-L, Sherman A. Atomic Layer Deposition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Bennetzen JL, Hake S, editors. Handbook of Maize: Genetics and Genomics. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Falavigna V da S, Porto DD, Silveira CP, Revers LF. Recent Advances in Genetics and Molecular Control of Bud Dormancy in Pipfruits. In: Anderson JV, editor. Advances in Plant Dormancy. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 107–22.

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. Hale T. The Science Of Infidelity [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/there-science-behind-cheating/

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. The Road to a Billion Dollar Saving: A Team Effort. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Jan. Report No.: 113269.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Krutsinger R. Evaluation of Grassland Restoration Success in Illinois Using Indicators of Ecosystem Function [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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. Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017 Jun 16;MM18.

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)