How to format your references using the Global Public Health citation style

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

Cole, M. (2011). Poison in party pills is too much to swallow. Nature, 474(7351), 253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bland, M. L., & Birnbaum, M. J. (2011). Cell biology. ADaPting to energetic stress. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6036), 1387–1388.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fish, J., Raule, N., & Attardi, G. (2004). Discovery of a major D-loop replication origin reveals two modes of human mtDNA synthesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5704), 2098–2101.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mignot, T., Shaevitz, J. W., Hartzell, P. L., & Zusman, D. R. (2007). Evidence that focal adhesion complexes power bacterial gliding motility. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5813), 853–856.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brook, C. G. D., & Dattani, M. T. (2012). Handbook of Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Beckmann, V., & Padmanabhan, M. (Eds.). (2009). Institutions and Sustainability: Political Economy of Agriculture and the Environment - Essays in Honour of Konrad Hagedorn. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang, Y., Li, P., & Zhu, Q. (2013). Chinese Argument Extraction Based on Trigger Mapping. In G. Zhou, J. Li, D. Zhao, & Y. Feng (Eds.), Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing: Second CCF Conference, NLPCC 2013, Chongqing, China, November 15-19, 2013, Proceedings (pp. 41–49). Springer.

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 Global Public Health.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, February 18). New Study Shows Elephants Console One Another. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-study-shows-elephants-console-one-another/

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. (1976). Survey of the DOL Activities With Regard to Assistance Furnished to Non-Reservation Indians (089737). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williamson, C. L. (2012). Hispanic female undergraduates perception of nursing as a career choice: A phenomenological study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Lee, L. (2007, October 18). Coziness, With Good Lines. New York Times, F3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cole, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Bland & Birnbaum, 2011; Cole, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bland & Birnbaum, 2011)
Three authors: (Fish et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Mignot et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Public Health
Abbreviation	Glob. Public Health
ISSN (print)	1744-1692
ISSN (online)	1744-1706
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health