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. 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

Schopper, H. (2006). Islam and science: where are the new patrons of science? Nature, 444(7115), 35–36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scully, M. O., & Svidzinsky, A. A. (2010). Physics. The Lamb shift--yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5983), 1239–1241.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park, S.-J., Taton, T. A., & Mirkin, C. A. (2002). Array-based electrical detection of DNA with nanoparticle probes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5559), 1503–1506.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Searle, I. R., Men, A. E., Laniya, T. S., Buzas, D. M., Iturbe-Ormaetxe, I., Carroll, B. J., & Gresshoff, P. M. (2003). Long-distance signaling in nodulation directed by a CLAVATA1-like receptor kinase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5603), 109–112.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jäger, W., & Marzahn, G. (2010). Mauerwerk. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Pickard, J. D., Akalan, N., Benes, V., Rocco, C. D., Dolenc, V. V., Antunes, J. L., Schramm, J., & Sindou, M. (Eds.). (2011). Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery (Vol. 36). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaudhary, U., Zhu, B., & Godavarty, A. (2009). Brain Connectivity Studies of Joint Attention Using Frequency-Domain Diffuse Optical Imaging. In A. J. McGoron, C.-Z. Li, & W.-C. Lin (Eds.), 25th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference 2009, 15 – 17 May 2009, Miami, Florida, USA (pp. 7–8). 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 Health SA Gesondheid.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, September 15). Huge Chain Of Volcanoes Discovered In Australia. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/australia-hosts-worlds-longest-continental-volcano-track/

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. (1993). Software Reuse: Major Issues Need to Be Resolved Before Benefits Can Be Achieved (IMTEC-93-16). 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

Tajer, S. A. (2010). Topics in MIMO networks [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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. (2010, May 27). Shop Till You’re Thirsty. New York Times, E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schopper, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Schopper, 2006; Scully & Svidzinsky, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Scully & Svidzinsky, 2010)
Three authors: (Park et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Searle et al., 2003)

About the journal

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

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