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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Community 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

Bunk, S. (2002). Tearing down the barriers. Nature, 416(6880), 4–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsai, L., & Barnea, G. (2014). A critical period defined by axon-targeting mechanisms in the murine olfactory bulb. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6180), 197–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bouret, S. G., Draper, S. J., & Simerly, R. B. (2004). Trophic action of leptin on hypothalamic neurons that regulate feeding. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5667), 108–110.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Doyle, M., Fookes, M., Ivens, A., Mangan, M. W., Wain, J., & Dorman, C. J. (2007). An H-NS-like stealth protein aids horizontal DNA transmission in bacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5809), 251–252.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moeller, R. R. (2013). Executive’s Guide to IT Governance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dincer, I., Midilli, A., & Kucuk, H. (Eds.). (2014). Progress in Sustainable Energy Technologies: Generating Renewable Energy. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Marek, V. W., & Truszczynski, M. (2007). Rough Sets and Approximation Schemes. In M. Kryszkiewicz, J. F. Peters, H. Rybinski, & A. Skowron (Eds.), Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems Paradigms: International Conference, RSEISP 2007, Warsaw, Poland, June 28-30, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 22–28). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Journal of Community Health.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 21). Our Cars Are Killing Us – So How Do We Wean Ourselves Off Them? IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/our-cars-are-killing-us-so-how-do-we-wean-ourselves-them/

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). Schedule Delays and Cost Overruns Plague DOD Automated Information Systems (No. T-IMTEC-89-8). 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

Kim, H. (2017). Empathy in the Early Childhood Classroom: Exploring Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Practices (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, September 20). Federal Judges Take Steps To Improve Accountability. New York Times, p. A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Community Health
Abbreviation	J. Community Health
ISSN (print)	0094-5145
ISSN (online)	1573-3610
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health(social science)