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

Aldhous, Peter. 2002. “Agribiotech: More Heat than Light.” Nature 420 (6917): 730–731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hayes, Richard, and Helen Weiss. 2006. “Epidemiology. Understanding HIV Epidemic Trends in Africa.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5761): 620–621.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merritt, D., L. Ferrarese, and C. L. Joseph. 2001. “No Supermassive Black Hole in M33?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5532): 1116–1118.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hou, D., X. P. Xie, Y. L. Zhang, J. T. Wu, Z. Y. Chen, and J. Y. Zhao. 2013. “Highly Stable Wideband Microwave Extraction by Synchronizing Widely Tunable Optoelectronic Oscillator with Optical Frequency Comb.” Scientific Reports 3 (December): 3509.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach, John. 2010. Excel® 2010 Power Programming with VBA. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Newton-Fisher, Nicholas E., Hugh Notman, James D. Paterson, and Vernon Reynolds, eds. 2006. Primates of Western Uganda. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Koprić, Ivan. 2008. “Independent Local Lists in Croatia: In Search for a Composite Theoretical Frame.” In Farewell to the Party Model?: Independent Local Lists in East and West European Countries, edited by Marion Reiser and Everhard Holtmann, 39–61. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

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. “NASA Astronaut Takes Extraordinary Photographs Of The Great Pyramids.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/incredible-images-great-pyramids-and-more-taken-nasa-astronaut-his-last-day-space/.

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. 2009. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2009 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. GAO-10-93R. 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

Kim, Hyosun. 2008. “Linkages Between Career Development and Career Technical Education Outcomes Among High Schools in New Jersey.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Protess, Ben, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg. 2016. “JPMorgan Said to Settle in Chinese Bribery Case.” New York Times, November 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aldhous 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Aldhous 2002; Hayes and Weiss 2006).

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

Two authors: (Hayes and Weiss 2006)
Three authors: (Merritt, Ferrarese, and Joseph 2001)
4 or more authors: (Hou 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