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

Nielsen MW. Make academic job advertisements fair to all. Nature. 2015 Sep 24;525(7570):427.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watanabe M, Kondo S. Fish pigmentation. Comment on “Local reorganization of xanthophores fine-tunes and colors the striped pattern of zebrafish.” Science. 2015 Apr 17;348(6232):297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gupta AK, Anderson DM, Overpeck JT. Abrupt changes in the Asian southwest monsoon during the Holocene and their links to the North Atlantic Ocean. Nature. 2003 Jan 23;421(6921):354–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Akechi H, Kikuchi Y, Tojo Y, Osanai H, Hasegawa T. Neural and behavioural responses to face-likeness of objects in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan 27;4:3874.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Popescu D, Gharbi A, Stefanoiu D, Borne P. Process Control Design for Industrial Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Fütterer DK, Damaske D, Kleinschmidt G, Miller H, Tessensohn F, editors. Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. XXVII, 477 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Ohye C. History of Stereotactic Surgery in Japan. In: Lozano AM, Gildenberg PL, Tasker RR, editors. Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 59–63.

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; 2014. Meet Five Of The UK’s Most Poisonous Plants.

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. Vehicle Data Privacy: Industry and Federal Efforts Under Way but NHTSA Needs to Define Its Role. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017 Jul. Report No.: GAO-17-656.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vaughn EL. Find me on Facebook: A new typology for categorizing online personalities [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Antilla S. Gender Bias Case Against Sterling Jewelers Can Proceed. New York Times. 2015 Feb 4;B8.

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