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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Public Health. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gibson VC (2006) Chemistry. Shuttling polyolefins to a new materials dimension. Science 312:703–704

A journal article with 2 authors

Schramke V, Allshire R (2003) Hairpin RNAs and retrotransposon LTRs effect RNAi and chromatin-based gene silencing. Science 301:1069–1074

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmidt-Hieber C, Jonas P, Bischofberger J (2004) Enhanced synaptic plasticity in newly generated granule cells of the adult hippocampus. Nature 429:184–187

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Xiao F, Zong Q, Wang Y, et al (2014) Generation of proton aurora by magnetosonic waves. Sci Rep 4:5190

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glaser R (2015) Symmetry, Spectroscopy, and Crystallography. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Belli RF (ed) (2012) True and False Recovered Memories: Toward a Reconciliation of the Debate, 1st edn. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Buehl MM (2008) Assessing the Multidimensionality of Students’ Epistemic Beliefs Across Diverse Cultures. In: Khine MS (ed) Knowing, Knowledge and Beliefs: Epistemological Studies across Diverse Cultures. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 65–112

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 Public Health.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) First Waterproof, Wireless Smart Earphones Are A Game Changer. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-first-wireless-smart-earphones-are-game-changer/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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) Mass Transit: Implementation of FTA’s New Starts Evaluation Process and FY 2001 Funding Proposals. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cruz AA (2009) Concordance between therapists’ self -reports and observers’ ratings of adherence to marital therapy. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Crow K (2001) Skip the Climbing Wall: This Start-Up Just Wants to Hang On. New York Times H4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gibson 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Schramke and Allshire 2003; Gibson 2006).

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

Two authors: (Schramke and Allshire 2003)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Public Health
Abbreviation	Int. J. Public Health
ISSN (print)	1661-8556
ISSN (online)	1661-8564
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health(social science)