How to format your references using the Critical Public Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical Public 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	Download the output style file
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

Curl, Robert F. 2005. “Obituary: Richard E. Smalley (1943-2005).” Nature 438 (7071): 1094.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shin, J. S., and S. N. Abraham. 2001. “Cell Biology. Caveolae--Not Just Craters in the Cellular Landscape.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5534): 1447–1448.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ninomiya, Hiromasa, Richard P. Elinson, and Rudolf Winklbauer. 2004. “Antero-Posterior Tissue Polarity Links Mesoderm Convergent Extension to Axial Patterning.” Nature 430 (6997): 364–367.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kim, Kwon-Ho, Brijesh Kumar, Keun Young Lee, Hyun-Kyu Park, Ju-Hyuck Lee, Hyun Hwi Lee, Hoin Jun, Dongyun Lee, and Sang-Woo Kim. 2013. “Piezoelectric Two-Dimensional Nanosheets/Anionic Layer Heterojunction for Efficient Direct Current Power Generation.” Scientific Reports 3: 2017.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Preber, Bradley J. 2014. Financial Expert Witness Communication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lyons, Rebecca E., and Samantha J. Rayner, eds. 2016. The Academic Book of the Future. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Carating, Rodelio B., Raymundo G. Galanta, and Clarita D. Bacatio. 2014. “Soils and the Philippine Economy.” In The Soils of the Philippines, edited by Raymundo G. Galanta and Clarita D. Bacatio, 187–271. World Soils Book Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Critical Public Health.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Scientists Reset Stem Cells to Study Us at Our Fully Pristine State.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-reset-stem-cells-study-us-our-fully-pristine-state/.

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. 1982. Discontinuance of Social Security Student Benefits. 117523. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fadamin, Arghavan. 2017. “Synthesis, Characterization and Electrochemistry of the Ruthenium Schiff Base Complex [(Saloph)Ru(NO)Cl].” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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

Branch, John. 2016. “Finding a Home in the Sand.” New York Times, August 8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Curl 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Curl 2005; Shin and Abraham 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Shin and Abraham 2001)
Three authors: (Ninomiya, Elinson, and Winklbauer 2004)
4 or more authors: (Kim et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Critical Public Health
Abbreviation	Crit. Public Health
ISSN (print)	0958-1596
ISSN (online)	1469-3682
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health