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

Neuenschwander, P. (2004). Harnessing nature in Africa. Nature, 432(7019), 801–802.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dohoney, K. M., & Gelles, J. (2001). Chi-sequence recognition and DNA translocation by single RecBCD helicase/nuclease molecules. Nature, 409(6818), 370–374.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grünwald, D., Singer, R. H., & Rout, M. (2011). Nuclear export dynamics of RNA-protein complexes. Nature, 475(7356), 333–341.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sidor, C. A., O’Keefe, F. R., Damiani, R., Steyer, J. S., Smith, R. M. H., Larsson, H. C. E., … Maga, A. (2005). Permian tetrapods from the Sahara show climate-controlled endemism in Pangaea. Nature, 434(7035), 886–889.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes, P. (2008). The JCT 05 Standard Building Sub-Contract. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Guénet, J. L. (2015). Genetics of the Mouse. (F. Benavides, J.-J. Panthier, & X. Montagutelli, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Miller, N. R. (2012). Election Inversions by the U.S. Electoral College. In D. S. Felsenthal & M. Machover (Eds.), Electoral Systems: Paradoxes, Assumptions, and Procedures (pp. 93–127). 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

Andrews, R. (2017, February 15). India Successfully Deploys 104 Satellites In World Record-Breaking Rocket Launch. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1992). Space Station: Contract Oversight and Performance Provisions for Major Work Packages (No. NSIAD-92-171BR). 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

Correa, L. (2015). Urban-rural differences in overweight and obese status among adolescents (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Ember, S., & Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, September 23). Where the Future Isn’t So Glossy. New York Times, p. BU1.

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)