How to format your references using the Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Eastern Mediterranean 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Ellerbroek B. Astronomical instrumentation: Atmospheric blurring has a new enemy. Nature. 2014 Aug 14;512(7513):144–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Meziane-Cherif D, Courvalin P. Antibiotic resistance: to the rescue of old drugs. Nature. 2014 Jun 26;510(7506):477–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harley HE, Putman EA, Roitblat HL. Bottlenose dolphins perceive object features through echolocation. Nature. 2003 Aug 7;424(6949):667–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhou Y, Han ST, Yan Y, Huang LB, Zhou L, Huang J, et al. Solution processed molecular floating gate for flexible flash memories. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct 31;3:3093.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin WC. Resistivity Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Williot P, Rochard E, Desse-Berset N, Kirschbaum F, Gessner J, editors. Biology and Conservation of the European SturgeonAcipenser sturioL. 1758: The Reunion of the European and Atlantic Sturgeons. First. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. XXVIII, 668 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang L, Wu Q, Qin B, Domingo-Ferrer J. Practical Privacy for Value-Added Applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. In: Xiang Y, Pathan M, Tao X, Wang H, editors. Internet and Distributed Computing Systems: 5th International Conference, IDCS 2012, Wuyishan, Fujian, China, November 21-23, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 43–56. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better In The World Of Muscle Building. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-bigger-isn-t-always-better-world-muscle-building/

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. Federal Research: DOD’s Small Business Innovation Research Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Apr. Report No.: RCED-97-122.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Caprile JA. The geochemical influence of trace element concentrations from marine sedimentary bedrock on freshwater streams in the western Transverse Mountain Ranges [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2016.

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

Herrman J. In Media Company Advertising, Sponsored Content Is Becoming King. New York Times. 2016 Jul 25;B1.

In-text citations

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

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	Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
Abbreviation	East. Mediterr. Health J.
ISSN (print)	1020-3397
ISSN (online)	1687-1634
Scope	General Medicine