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

Walters HRJ (2010) Physics. Antimatter atomic physics. Science 330:762–763

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu L, Li B (2014) Low thermal conductivity in ultrathin carbon nanotube (2, 1). Sci Rep 4:4917

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee A, Dennis C, Campbell P (2007) Nature’s guide for mentors. Nature 447:791–797

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Subramaniam S, Sixt KM, Barrow R, Snyder SH (2009) Rhes, a striatal specific protein, mediates mutant-huntingtin cytotoxicity. Science 324:1327–1330

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolley T (2013) Low Impact Building. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Wiercigroch M, Rega G (eds) (2013) IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics for Advanced Technologies and Engineering Design: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics for Advanced Technologies and Engineering Design, held Aberdeen, UK, 27-30 July 2010. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Perrig-Chiello P, Hutchison S, Knöpfli B (2016) Vulnerability Following a Critical Life Event: Temporary Crisis or Chronic Distress? A Psychological Controversy, Methodological Considerations, and Empirical Evidence. In: Oris M, Roberts C, Joye D, Ernst Stähli M (eds) Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 87–111

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

Andrews R (2016) Sea Level Rise Is Almost Certain To Ravage The World’s Major Coastal Cities By 2100. In: IFLScience. 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 (1989) Automated Systems: Treasury’s Efforts to Improve Its Payroll and Personnel Systems. 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

McCready M (2017) Examining the Role of Community Capacity for Sustainable Water Planning through Local Urban Governance: A Case Study Analysis of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Mazzetti M, Hubbard B, Rosenberg M (2016) Yemenis View Strikes as Proof of Role of U.S. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walters 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Walters 2010; Zhu and Li 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhu and Li 2014)
Three or more authors: (Subramaniam et al. 2009)

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)

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