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

Paz JP. Computer science. Randomness in quantum computation. Science 2003; 302:2076–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moritz C, Agudo R. The future of species under climate change: resilience or decline? Science 2013; 341:504–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Culler SJ, Hoff KG, Smolke CD. Reprogramming cellular behavior with RNA controllers responsive to endogenous proteins. Science 2010; 330:1251–5.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sparks RSJ, Brown RJ, Field M, Gilbertson M. Kimberlite ascent and eruption. Nature 2007; 450:E21; discussion E22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiBerardinis LJ, Baum JS, First MW, Gatwood GT, Seth AK. Guidelines for Laboratory Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Sharp H, Hall T, editors. Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming: 17th International Conference, XP 2016, Edinburgh, UK, May 24-27, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Arnoldi K. The Monofixation Syndrome: New Considerations on Pathophysiology. In: Lorenz B, Brodsky MC, editors. Pediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Genetics: Strabismus - New Concepts in Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. page 33–40.

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

Hale T. Russia Is Using An Ingenious Method To Stop People Abusing Disabled Parking Spots [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ingenius-method-russia-using-stop-people-abusing-disabled-parking-spots/

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. Telecommunications: FCC Should Evaluate the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Lifeline Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bowmar JS. Building Energy Efficiency and Resilience in the United States, One Disaster at a Time: Fostering Green Building Principles through Disaster Assistance. 2012;

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

Eder S, Protess B. Snarl of Foreign Ties Arises in Trump Hotel Deal. New York Times2017; :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	Disaster Health
Abbreviation	Disaster Health
ISSN (print)	2166-5044
ISSN (online)	2166-5052
Scope

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