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

Sheeran J (2011) Preventing hunger: sustainability not aid. Nature 479:469–470

A journal article with 2 authors

Guenther MG, Young RA (2010) Transcription. Repressive transcription. Science 329:150–151

A journal article with 3 authors

Blair AC, Fisher ER, Rickey D (2012) IBI* series winner. Discovering nanoscience. Science 337:1056–1057

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Römpler H, Rohland N, Lalueza-Fox C, et al (2006) Nuclear gene indicates coat-color polymorphism in mammoths. Science 313:62

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rogers DW (2010) Concise Physical Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sheen E, Karremann I (eds) (2016) Shakespeare in Cold War Europe: Conflict, Commemoration, Celebration. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Almeida A, Rebelo F, Noriega P (2016) Development of a Virtual Environment for Safety Warnings Behavior Compliance Evaluation. In: Rebelo F, Soares M (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 35–42

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

Fang J (2014) Test: How Old Are Your Ears? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/test-how-old-are-your-ears/. 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 (1973) Review of Selected Aspects of the Bilingual Education Program. 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

Matheny AL (2009) Home gardener preferences, perceptions, knowledge and behaviors associated with pest management strategies and information acquisition. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Walsh MW (2016) Puerto Rico Asks Congress for Law to Allow It to Restructure $49 Billion in Debt. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sheeran 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Guenther and Young 2010; Sheeran 2011).

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

Two authors: (Guenther and Young 2010)
Three or more authors: (Römpler et al. 2006)

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)