How to format your references using the Health SA Gesondheid citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Health SA Gesondheid (HSAG). 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

Freed, E.O., 2002, ‘Virology. Rafting with Ebola’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5566), 279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowenstein, T.K. & Demicco, R.V., 2006, ‘Elevated Eocene atmospheric CO2 and its subsequent decline’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5795), 1928.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cobaleda, C., Jochum, W. & Busslinger, M., 2007, ‘Conversion of mature B cells into T cells by dedifferentiation to uncommitted progenitors’, Nature, 449(7161), 473–477.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Myers, R.A., Baum, J.K., Shepherd, T.D., Powers, S.P. & Peterson, C.H., 2007, ‘Cascading effects of the loss of apex predatory sharks from a coastal ocean’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5820), 1846–1850.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov, B.M., 2010, Cluster Processes in Gases and Plasmas, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Scott, J. & Stoeckli, E. (eds.), 2012, Neuromedia: Art and Neuroscience Research, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, L. & Liu, Z., 2013, ‘Study on Consumer Satisfaction in Agricultural Products Supermarkets and Fairs’, in Z. Zhong (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012: Volume 3, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering., pp. 41–48, Springer, London.

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 Health SA Gesondheid.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015, Scientists Have Discovered ‘Clocks’ Inside Your Cells That Could Determine When You Get Cancer, IFLScience.

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, 1995, Federal Research: Lessons Learned from the Pilot Technology Access Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sun, Z., 2013, A qualitative study of Chinese parents’ beliefs, involvement and challenges in support of their children’s English language development in China – PhD thesis, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA .

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

Saslow, L., 2006, Replacing Yellow Buses, With Green in Mind, New York Times, p. LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Freed 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Freed 2002; Lowenstein & Demicco 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lowenstein & Demicco 2006)
Three or more authors: (Myers et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Health SA Gesondheid
Abbreviation	Health SA Gesondheid
ISSN (print)	1025-9848
ISSN (online)	2071-9736
Scope	Health Policy Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health