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

Allen GE. Essays on science and society. Is a new eugenics afoot? Science. 2001 Oct 5;294(5540):59–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goodman S, Kreeger K. Getting organized. Nature. 2003 May 1;423(6935):98–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilg O, Hanski I, Sittler B. Cyclic dynamics in a simple vertebrate predator-prey community. Science. 2003 Oct 31;302(5646):866–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pedersen TH, Nielsen OB, Lamb GD, Stephenson DG. Intracellular acidosis enhances the excitability of working muscle. Science. 2004 Aug 20;305(5687):1144–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duffy DJ. Finite Difference Methods in Financial Engineering. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Hauschild MZ, Huijbregts MAJ, editors. Life Cycle Impact Assessment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. X, 339 p. 46 illus., 20 illus. in color. (LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment).

A chapter in an edited book

Iwanari Y, Yabu Y, Tasaki M, Yokoo M. Network Distributed POMDP with Communication. In: Hattori H, Kawamura T, Idé T, Yokoo M, Murakami Y, editors. New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2008 Conference and Workshops, Asahikawa, Japan, June 11-13, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 26–38. (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

Evans K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Depicting Film Baddies With Skin Conditions Is Damaging To Real Sufferers, Say Dermatologists. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/depicting-film-baddies-with-skin-conditions-is-damaging-to-real-sufferers-say-dermatologists/

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. Transportation Security Administration: More Clarity on the Authority of Federal Security Directors Is Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Sep. Report No.: GAO-05-935.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Manzano D. The benefits of fall intervention programs for older adults: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Billard M. Picture This Bathing Suit. New York Times. 2010 Jul 15;E5.

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