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]

Ho D. Is China prepared for microbial threats? Nature 2005;435:421–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Taylor RL, Mittlefehldt DW. Missing martian meteorites. Science 2000;290:273c–5c.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tilman D, Hill J, Lehman C. Carbon-negative biofuels from low-input high-diversity grassland biomass. Science 2006;314:1598–600.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Persson L, Amundsen P-A, De Roos AM, Klemetsen A, Knudsen R, Primicerio R. Culling prey promotes predator recovery--alternative states in a whole-lake experiment. Science 2007;316:1743–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hoffmann W. The Economic Competitiveness of Renewable Energy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Purkayastha BB. A Digital Phase Locked Loop based Signal and Symbol Recovery System for Wireless Channel. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nedjah N, Mourelle L de M. Evolutionary Pattern Matching Using Genetic Programming. In: Nedjah N, Mourelle L de M, Abraham A, editors. Genetic Systems Programming: Theory and Experiences, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 81–104.

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. New Prion Disease Raises Questions About Whether Alzheimer’s And Parkinson’s Could Be Infectious. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-prion-disease-raises-questions-about-whether-alzheimer-s-and-parkinson-s/ (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. Inadequacies in Data Processing Planning in the Department of the Interior. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Templeton TH. The Impact of Emergent Information and Communication Technology on Peacebuilding. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2017.

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]

Kelly DA. Staying in Touch, for Less. New York Times 2010:TR3.

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