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

Littlewood, P. (2007). Physics. Condensates made of light. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5827), 989–990.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hellweg, S., & Milà i Canals, L. (2014). Emerging approaches, challenges and opportunities in life cycle assessment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6188), 1109–1113.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferain, I., Colinge, C. A., & Colinge, J.-P. (2011). Multigate transistors as the future of classical metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors. Nature, 479(7373), 310–316.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Vartanian, J.-P., Guétard, D., Henry, M., & Wain-Hobson, S. (2008). Evidence for editing of human papillomavirus DNA by APOBEC3 in benign and precancerous lesions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5873), 230–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moeller, R. (2010). IT Audit, Control, and Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Oktyabrsky, S., & Ye, P. (Eds.). (2010). Fundamentals of III-V Semiconductor MOSFETs. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Fleishman, G. D., & Toptygin, I. N. (2013). Wave–Particle and Wave–Wave Interactions. In I. N. Toptygin (Ed.), Cosmic Electrodynamics: Electrodynamics and Magnetic Hydrodynamics of Cosmic Plasmas (pp. 139–161). 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 7). Researchers Strap Weighted Tail to Chickens to Understand Dinosaur Movements. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-strap-weighted-tail-chickens-understand-dinosaur-movements/

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. (1977). The Impact of Federal Commodity Donations on the School Lunch Program (CED-77-32). 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

Kino, M. Y. (2015). My Concierge MD, Inc. a business plan [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Murphy, M. J. O., & Patel, S. (2016, November 12). Because I Was a Girl. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Littlewood, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hellweg & Milà i Canals, 2014; Littlewood, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Hellweg & Milà i Canals, 2014)
Three authors: (Ferain et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Vartanian et al., 2008)

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