How to format your references using the Disaster Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Disaster 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

Balents L. Spin liquids in frustrated magnets. Nature 2010; 464:199–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sarkies P, Miska EA. Molecular biology. Is there social RNA? Science 2013; 341:467–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Choudhury S, Morgan D, Uberuaga BP. Massive interfacial reconstruction at misfit dislocations in metal/oxide interfaces. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6533.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pawłowski M, Paterek T, Kaszlikowski D, Scarani V, Winter A, Zukowski M. Information causality as a physical principle. Nature 2009; 461:1101–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wierenga ER. The Philosophy of Religion. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Mishra RS, Mahoney MW, Sato Y, Hovanski Y, editors. Friction Stir Welding and Processing VIII. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Froehlich J, Larson E, Saba E, Campbell T, Atlas L, Fogarty J, Patel S. A Longitudinal Study of Pressure Sensing to Infer Real-World Water Usage Events in the Home. In: Lyons K, Hightower J, Huang EM, editors. Pervasive Computing: 9th International Conference, Pervasive 2011, San Francisco, USA, June 12-15, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. page 50–69.

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 Disaster Health.

Blog post

Andrew E. Baboons Don’t Play Follow The Leader – They’re Democratic Travellers [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baboons-don-t-play-follow-leader-they-re-democratic-travellers/

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. The Concorde: Results of a Supersonic Aircraft’s Entry into the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Do YK. Effects of informal care on caregivers’ labor market outcomes and health in South Korea. 2008;

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

Corkery M, Cowley S. For Better or Worse, Debt Reaches New Peak. New York Times2017; :B1.

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	Disaster Health
Abbreviation	Disaster Health
ISSN (print)	2166-5044
ISSN (online)	2166-5052
Scope