How to format your references using the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education citation style

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

Branco, Tiago. 2011. “Eppendorf Winner. The Language of Dendrites.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6056): 615–616.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shine, Keith P., and William T. Sturges. 2007. “Atmospheric Science. CO2 Is Not the Only Gas.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5820): 1804–1805.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dally, Joanna M., Nathan J. Emery, and Nicola S. Clayton. 2006. “Food-Caching Western Scrub-Jays Keep Track of Who Was Watching When.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5780): 1662–1665.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Limelette, P., A. Georges, D. Jérome, P. Wzietek, P. Metcalf, and J. M. Honig. 2003. “Universality and Critical Behavior at the Mott Transition.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 302 (5642): 89–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hansen, Karen Lee, and Kent E. Zenobia. 2011. Civil Engineer’s Handbook of Professional Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Scott, John. 2015. Expert Oracle Application Express. Edited by Nick Buytaert, Karen Cannell, Martin D’Souza, Doug Gault, Dimitri Gielis, Roel Hartman, Denes Kubicek, et al. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Rolka, Katrin, and Bettina Roesken-Winter. 2015. “Networking Theories to Understand Beliefs and Their Crucial Role in Mathematics Education.” In From Beliefs to Dynamic Affect Systems in Mathematics Education: Exploring a Mosaic of Relationships and Interactions, edited by Birgit Pepin and Bettina Roesken-Winter, 73–93. Advances in Mathematics Education. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Promotion and Education.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2017. “California’s Famous Giant Sequoia ‘Tunnel Tree’ Falls From Heavy Rain.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/californias-famous-giant-sequoia-tunnel-tree-falls-from-heavy-rain/.

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. 1986. University Finances: Research Revenues and Expenditures. RCED-86-162BR. Washington, DC: 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

Huang, Yao-Feng. 2013. “The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Lee, Linda. 2008. “The Best Decorated Tent You’ll Ever See.” New York Times, November 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Branco 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Branco 2011; Shine and Sturges 2007).

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

Two authors: (Shine and Sturges 2007)
Three authors: (Dally, Emery, and Clayton 2006)
4 or more authors: (Limelette et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Health Promotion and Education
Abbreviation	Int. J. Health Promot. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1463-5240
ISSN (online)	2164-9545
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health