How to format your references using the Journal of Health and Social Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 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

Ashley-Ross, Miriam A. 2015. “BIOMECHANICS. When It’s Hip to Be Square.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349(6243):30–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

Retchless, Adam C., and Jeffrey G. Lawrence. 2007. “Temporal Fragmentation of Speciation in Bacteria.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317(5841):1093–96.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feng, Suhua, Steven E. Jacobsen, and Wolf Reik. 2010. “Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant and Animal Development.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330(6004):622–27.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

List, Markus, Steffen Schmidt, Jakub Trojnar, Jochen Thomas, Mads Thomassen, Torben A. Kruse, Qihua Tan, Jan Baumbach, and Jan Mollenhauer. 2014. “Efficient Sample Tracking with OpenLabFramework.” Scientific Reports 4:4278.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dubuisson, Séverine. 2015. Tracking with Particle Filter for High-Dimensional Observation and State Spaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Meersman, Robert, Hervé Panetto, Tharam Dillon, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Peter Dadam, Xiaofang Zhou, Siani Pearson, Alois Ferscha, Sonia Bergamaschi, and Isabel F. Cruz, eds. 2012. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part I. Vol. 7565. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dinh, Thang N., Incheol Shin, Nhi K. Thai, My T. Thai, and Taieb Znati. 2010. “A General Approach for Modules Identification in Evolving Networks.” Pp. 83–100 in Dynamics of Information Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer Optimization and Its Applications, edited by M. J. Hirsch, P. M. Pardalos, and R. Murphey. New York, NY: 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 Health and Social Behavior.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “New Species Of Wolf Discovered In Africa.” IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 (https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/african-golden-jackals-are-actually-wolves/).

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: Resolving Conflict Over Integration Contractor’s Role. NSIAD-92-291BR. 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

Pease, Mollie. 2014. “Progress towards the Synthesis of a Potent, Bioavailable and Selective Dimethylarginine Dimethylaminohydrolase-1 Inactivator.” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Hollander, Sophia. 1999. “Cadets Can’t Catch Cougars.” New York Times, November 21, 811.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ashley-Ross 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ashley-Ross 2015; Retchless and Lawrence 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Retchless and Lawrence 2007)
Three authors: (Feng, Jacobsen, and Reik 2010)
4 or more authors: (List et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Abbreviation	J. Health Soc. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0022-1465
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Social Psychology