How to format your references using the International Journal of Health Geographics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Health Geographics. 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

1. Davies KG. Creative tension. Nature. 2000;407:135.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zuber MT, Garrick-Bethell I. Planetary science. What do we need to know to land on the Moon again? Science. 2005;310:983–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Charlson RJ, Valero FPJ, Seinfeld JH. Atmospheric science. In search of balance. Science. 2005;308:806–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lee KY, Peters MC, Anderson KW, Mooney DJ. Controlled growth factor release from synthetic extracellular matrices. Nature. 2000;408:998–1000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Fayngold M. Special Relativity and Motions Faster than Light. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Watson RR, editor. Handbook of vitamin D in human health: Prevention, treatment and toxicity. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schreiber R. Manycores in the Future. In: Perrott R, Chapman BM, Subhlok J, Mello RF de, Yang LT, editors. High Performance Computing and Communications: Third International Conference, HPCC 2007, Houston, USA, September 26-28, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 5–5.

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 International Journal of Health Geographics.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. The Water On Earth Predates The Formation Of The Sun [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-systems-water-predates-sun/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. NASA Procurement: Contract and Management Improvements at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Dec. Report No.: NSIAD-95-40.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pahuja S. Bandwidth feedback effects on retained movements in young and old adults [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

1. Neuman W. Colombia’s President Reinstates a Mayor He Ousted. New York Times. 2014 Apr 24;A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	International Journal of Health Geographics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Health Geogr.
ISSN (online)	1476-072X
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting General Computer Science Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health