How to format your references using the Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Epidemiology and Global 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Schubert C. Single-cell analysis: The deepest differences. Nature 2011;480:133–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cushing MC, Anseth KS. Materials science. Hydrogel cell cultures. Science 2007;316:1133–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lopinski GP, Wayner DD, Wolkow RA. Self-directed growth of molecular nanostructures on silicon. Nature 2000;406:48–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liu W, Li Y, Learn GH, Rudicell RS, Robertson JD, Keele BF, et al. Origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in gorillas. Nature 2010;467:420–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zarbock G, Lynch S, Ammann A, Ringer S. Mindfulness for Therapists. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Ahsanullah M. An Introduction to Order Statistics. vol. 3. Paris: Atlantis Press; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

de Rouilhan P. Tarski’s Recantation: Reading the Postscript to “Wahrheitsbegriff.” In: Abeles FF, Fuller ME, editors. Modern Logic 1850-1950, East and West, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 119–34.

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 Epidemiology and Global Health.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. What’s MSG, And Is It Bad For You? IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/whats-msg-and-it-bad-you/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Integration of Current Implementation Efforts with Long-term Planning for the Next Generation Air Transportation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Young JL. A community college’s loss of accreditation: A case study. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

[1]

Gustines GG. In One Sad Day, an Old World Artisan Confronts a New World. New York Times 2010:C4.

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 Epidemiology and Global Health
Abbreviation	J. Epidemiol. Glob. Health
ISSN (print)	2210-6006
Scope	Epidemiology