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. Belzig W. QUANTUM SIMULATION. Josephson contacts of neutral strongly interacting fermions. Science. 2015;350:1470.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rakoff-Nahoum S, Comstock LE. Immunology: Starve a fever, feed the microbiota. Nature. 2014;514:576–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Tang Z, Kotov NA, Giersig M. Spontaneous organization of single CdTe nanoparticles into luminescent nanowires. Science. 2002;297:237–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Asadi M, Sayahpour B, Abbasi P, Ngo AT, Karis K, Jokisaari JR, et al. A lithium-oxygen battery with a long cycle life in an air-like atmosphere. Nature. 2018;555:502–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Henriksen RN. Practical Relativity. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

1. Georgakopoulos D, Ritter N, Benatallah B, Zirpins C, Feuerlicht G, Schoenherr M, et al., editors. Service-Oriented Computing ICSOC 2006: 4th International Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, December 4-7, 2006, Workshops Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. De Paoli F, Maurino A, Toma I, O’Sullivan J, Tilly M, Dobson G. Non-Functional Properties and Service Level Agreements in Service-Oriented Computing (NFPSLA-SOC ’07) – Organizers’ Workshop Summary. In: Nitto ED, Ripeanu M, editors. Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2007 Workshops: ICSOC 2007, International Workshops, Vienna, Austria, September 17, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 43–4.

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 D. Touchscreens For Dogs, Wearables For Chickens: Welcome To The World Of Animal Technology [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/touchscreens-for-dogs-wearables-for-chickens-welcome-to-the-world-of-animal-technology/

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. Customs Service Modernization: Strategic Information Management Must Be Improved for National Automation Program to Succeed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 May. Report No.: AIMD-96-57.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Anaya S. Animo clinician training program for detection and treatment of depression during pregnancy and postpartum depression in low income Latina women a grant proposal project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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. Conte L. Scouting Report. New York Times. 2011 Apr 28;E5.

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)

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