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

Blow, Nathan. 2009. “Functional Neuroscience: How to Get Ahead in Imaging.” Nature 458 (7240): 925–928.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, Sarah L., and Kenneth Wilson. 2002. “Parasites as a Viability Cost of Sexual Selection in Natural Populations of Mammals.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5589): 2015–2018.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murthy, V. Rama, Wim van Westrenen, and Yingwei Fei. 2003. “Experimental Evidence That Potassium Is a Substantial Radioactive Heat Source in Planetary Cores.” Nature 423 (6936): 163–165.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ni, Xijun, Yuanqing Wang, Yaoming Hu, and Chuankui Li. 2004. “A Euprimate Skull from the Early Eocene of China.” Nature 427 (6969): 65–68.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tue, Nguyen Viet, Michael Reichel, and Michael Fischer. 2016. Berechnung Und Bemessung von Betonbrücken. Berlin, Germany: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Andrews, Ben. 2011. The Ricci Flow in Riemannian Geometry: A Complete Proof of the Differentiable 1/4-Pinching Sphere Theorem. Edited by Christopher Hopper. Vol. 2011. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Keith, Mike, and Merrick Schnicariol. 2010. “Collection Mapping.” In Pro JPA 2: Mastering the Java^TM Persistence API, edited by Merrick Schnicariol, 107–129. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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

Davis, Josh. 2015. “An ‘Optical Dog’s Nose’ Could Help Detect Cancer From Your Breath.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/optical-dogs-nose-could-help-detect-cancer-your-breath/.

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. 2000. Federal Communications Commission: Extending Wireless Telecommunications Services to Tribal Lands. OGC-00-55. 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

Anderson, Alexis. 2010. “Scribblins.” 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

Saslow, Linda. 2006. “Southampton Buys A Girl Scout Camp.” New York Times, November 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blow 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Blow 2009; Moore and Wilson 2002).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Wilson 2002)
Three authors: (Murthy, van Westrenen, and Fei 2003)
4 or more authors: (Ni et al. 2004)

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