How to format your references using the Disability and Health Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Disability and Health Journal. 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

Bloodworth A. Resources: Track flows to manage technology-metal supply. Nature. 2014;505(7481):19-20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Losos JB, Schluter D. Analysis of an evolutionary species-area relationship. Nature. 2000;408(6814):847-850.

A journal article with 3 authors

Marangon DG, Vallone G, Villoresi P. Random bits, true and unbiased, from atmospheric turbulence. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5490.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gros J, Manceau M, Thomé V, Marcelle C. A common somitic origin for embryonic muscle progenitors and satellite cells. Nature. 2005;435(7044):954-958.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fleming P, Lee R. Orthodontic Functional Appliances. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Mehmetli E, Koumanova B, eds. The Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Environment. Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Weltner K, Schuster P, Weber WJ, Grosjean J. Differential Calculus. In: Weber WJ, Grosjean J, Schuster P, eds. Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers: Fundamentals and Interactive Study Guide. Springer; 2009:85-144.

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 Disability and Health Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. How To Beat Exam Stress With Just The Power Of Your Brain. IFLScience. May 29, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-beat-exam-stress-just-power-your-brain/

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. Commercial Space Launches: FAA’s Risk Assessment Process Is Not Yet Updated. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Solari S. A Unified Anatomical Theory and Computational Model of Cognitive Information Processing in the Mammalian Brain and the Introduction of DNA Reco Codes. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego; 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

Schmidt MS, Apuzzo M. Mueller’s Moves Point to Inquiry Aimed at Trump. New York Times. June 15, 2017:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Disability and Health Journal
Abbreviation	Disabil. Health J.
ISSN (print)	1936-6574
Scope	General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health