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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Global Health (JOGH). 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

Mira-Perez J. Spanish university study ignores research. Nature. 2000;404:222. Medline:10749185

A journal article with 2 authors

Norio P, Schildkraut CL. Visualization of DNA replication on individual Epstein-Barr virus episomes. Science. 2001;294:2361–4. Medline:11743204

A journal article with 3 authors

Lemieux C, Otis C, Turmel M. Ancestral chloroplast genome in Mesostigma viride reveals an early branch of green plant evolution. Nature. 2000;403:649–52. Medline:10688199

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Youn DH, Jang J-W, Kim JY, Jang JS, Choi SH, Lee JS. Fabrication of graphene-based electrode in less than a minute through hybrid microwave annealing. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5492. Medline:24974846

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bunnell T. From World City to the World in One City. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Davidson MH, Toth PP, Maki KC, Gotto AM, editors. Therapeutic Lipidology. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Besana P, Robertson D. How Service Choreography Statistics Reduce the Ontology Mapping Problem. In: Aberer K, Choi K-S, Noy N, Allemang D, Lee K-I, Nixon L, et al., editors. The Semantic Web: 6th International Semantic Web Conference, 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007, Busan, Korea, November 11-15, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. pp. 44–57.

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 Global Health.

Blog post

Fang J. 500-Million-Year-Old Brains Hint at How Animal Heads Have Evolved. In: IFLScience [Internet]. IFLScience; 8 May 2015 [cited 30 Oct 2018]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/500-million-year-old-brain-hints-how-heads-evolved/

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. Highway Safety: Motorcycle Helmet Laws Save Lives and Reduce Costs to Society. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Jul. Report No.: RCED-91-170.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blicha EA. Music therapy program for older adults: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach. 2015.

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

Eligon J. Family of Man Shot by Officer Settles Suit. New York Times. 21 Jun 2017:A17.

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 Global Health
ISSN (print)	2047-2978
ISSN (online)	2047-2986
Scope