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. Buston P. Social hierarchies: size and growth modification in clownfish. Nature. 2003;424:145–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Burdon JJ, Thrall PH. Coevolution of plants and their pathogens in natural habitats. Science. 2009;324:755–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rowe T, McBride EF, Sereno PC. Dinosaur with a heart of stone. Science. 2001;291:783.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Neumann M, Nyéki J, Cowan B, Saunders J. Bilayer 3He: a simple two-dimensional heavy-fermion system with quantum criticality. Science. 2007;317:1356–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sharma YC. A Guide to the Economic Removal of Metals from Aqueous Solutions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Pinedo HM, Smorenburg CH, editors. Drugs Affecting Growth of Tumours. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Smyth J, Down B, McInerney P. Socially Critical School/Community Relations. In: Down B, McInerney P, editors. The Socially Just School: Making Space for Youth to Speak Back. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 69–91.

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. Andrew E. What Is Love? Here’s The Science… [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-love-here-s-science/

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. Federally Funded Math and Science Materials. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Oct. Report No.: GAO-01-81R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Konggidinata MI. Application and Modifications of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon (OMC) for BTEX Removal: Characterization, Adsorption Mechanisms, and Kinetic Studies [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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. Brantley B. A Madcap Princess Who Is Making Her Own Bed. New York Times. 2015 Dec 14;C1.

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