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

Carroll, Sean M. 2006. “Is Our Universe Natural?” Nature 440 (7088): 1132–1136.

A journal article with 2 authors

Visscher, Marty, and Teresa Taylor. 2014. “Pressure Ulcers in the Hospitalized Neonate: Rates and Risk Factors.” Scientific Reports 4 (December): 7429.

A journal article with 3 authors

Williams, Matthew A., Aaron J. Tyznik, and Michael J. Bevan. 2006. “Interleukin-2 Signals during Priming Are Required for Secondary Expansion of CD8+ Memory T Cells.” Nature 441 (7095): 890–893.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nanayama, Futoshi, Kenji Satake, Ryuta Furukawa, Koichi Shimokawa, Brian F. Atwater, Kiyoyuki Shigeno, and Shigeru Yamaki. 2003. “Unusually Large Earthquakes Inferred from Tsunami Deposits along the Kuril Trench.” Nature 424 (6949): 660–663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. 2014. Trayed and Packed Columns. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yadav, Shyam Singh, and Robert Redden, eds. 2010. Climate Change and Management of Cool Season Grain Legume Crops. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Sezer, Volkan, Pınar Boyraz, Ziya Ercan, Çagri Dikilitaş, Hasan Heceoğlu, Alper Öner, Gülay Öke, and Metin Gökaşan. 2014. “Unmanned Ground Vehicle Otonobil: Design, Perception, and Decision Algorithms.” In Smart Mobile In-Vehicle Systems: Next Generation Advancements, edited by Gerhard Schmidt, Huseyin Abut, Kazuya Takeda, and John H. L. Hansen, 47–56. New York, NY: 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 International Journal of Health Promotion and Education.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “Jumping Spiders See Reds Thanks to Sunglasses-Like Filter.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/jumping-spiders-see-reds-thanks-sunglasses-filter/.

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. 2006. No Child Left Behind Act: Education Actions Needed to Improve Local Implementation and State Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services. GAO-06-758. 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

Betito, Jenny-Joy H. 2012. “Improving the Well-Being of Filipino Homebound Adults through Religious Involvement, Education, and Socialization: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Brantley, Ben. 2017. “An Indomitable Woman Goes West.” New York Times, June 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carroll 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Carroll 2006; Visscher and Taylor 2014).

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

Two authors: (Visscher and Taylor 2014)
Three authors: (Williams, Tyznik, and Bevan 2006)
4 or more authors: (Nanayama 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