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

Ziemelis, Karl. 2003. “Hydrocarbon Reservoirs.” Nature 426 (6964): 317.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bramwell, S. T., and M. J. Gingras. 2001. “Spin Ice State in Frustrated Magnetic Pyrochlore Materials.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 294 (5546): 1495–1501.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kushiro, Tetsuo, Eiji Nambara, and Peter McCourt. 2003. “Hormone Evolution: The Key to Signalling.” Nature 422 (6928): 122.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Raviv, Uri, Suzanne Giasson, Nir Kampf, Jean-François Gohy, Robert Jérôme, and Jacob Klein. 2003. “Lubrication by Charged Polymers.” Nature 425 (6954): 163–165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meyr, Heinrich, Marc Moeneclaey, and Stefan A. Fechtel. 2001. Digital Communication Receivers: Synchronization, Channel Estimation, and Signal Processing. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brown, Gregory, and Yual Chiek, eds. 2016. Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds. Vol. 75. The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Fei, Rujie Liu, and Takayuki Baba. 2013. “Multi-SVM Multi-Instance Learning for Object-Based Image Retrieval.” In Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 15th International Conference, CAIP 2013, York, UK, August 27-29, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, edited by Richard Wilson, Edwin Hancock, Adrian Bors, and William Smith, 37–44. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Four Easy Tips To Make Your Batteries Last Longer.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/four-easy-tips-make-your-batteries-last-longer/.

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. 2005. School Meal Programs: Competitive Foods Are Widely Available and Generate Substantial Revenues for Schools. GAO-05-563. 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

Jurica, Michelle Lynn. 2012. “Napping in the Workplace as an Invisible Stigma: The Moderating Roles of Raters’ Nap Habit, Work Ethic, and Organizational Policy.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

ADAM LIPTAK; Janet Roberts contributed reporting for this series. She was assisted by Linda Amster, Jack Styczynski, Donna Anderson, Jack Begg, Alain Delaquérière, Sandra Jamison, Toby Lyles, and Carolyn Wilder. 2005. “Locked Away Forever After Crimes as Teenagers.” New York Times, October 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ziemelis 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ziemelis 2003; Bramwell and Gingras 2001).

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

Two authors: (Bramwell and Gingras 2001)
Three authors: (Kushiro, Nambara, and McCourt 2003)
4 or more authors: (Raviv et al. 2003)

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