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

Waychunas, Glenn A. 2014. “Interfacial Chemistry. Disrupting Dissolving Ions at Surfaces with Fluid Flow.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 344(6188):1094–95.

A journal article with 2 authors

Žutić, Igor, and Jeongsu Lee. 2012. “Applied Physics. Spin Twists in a Transistor.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 337(6092):307–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sousa-Nunes, Rita, Lih Ling Yee, and Alex P. Gould. 2011. “Fat Cells Reactivate Quiescent Neuroblasts via TOR and Glial Insulin Relays in Drosophila.” Nature 471(7339):508–12.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Holmes, Edward C., David J. Lipman, Dmitriy Zamarin, and Jonathan W. Yewdell. 2006. “Comment on ‘Large-Scale Sequence Analysis of Avian Influenza Isolates.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5793):1573; author reply 1573.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chong, Yen Yee. 2004. Investment Risk Management. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Hunter, Wayne. 2008. Genome Mapping and Genomics in Arthropods. Vol. 1. edited by C. Kole. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sjölander, Annika Egan, Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, and Kenneth Ögren. 2010. “Framing Chemical Risks in Sweden and Poland: Journalists’ Narratives and Media Texts.” Pp. 45–69 in Regulating Chemical Risks: European and Global Challenges, edited by J. Eriksson, M. Gilek, and C. Rudén. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. 2014. “Unevolved Galaxy Hails from the Early Universe.” IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 (https://www.iflscience.com/space/unevolved-galaxy-hails-early-universe/).

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. 2010. Telecommunications: Survey of State Public Utility Commissions (GAO-11-13SP, October 2010), an E-Supplement to GAO-11-11. GAO-11-13SP. 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

Freedman, Ryan. 2014. “Assessing the Functional Recovery and Connectivity Potential of Restored Estuaries in Southern California Using Juvenile Predator Fish Movements.” 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

Saslow, Linda. 2006. “New Setting for Double-Diamond Cottage.” New York Times, March 5, 14LI3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Waychunas 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Waychunas 2014; Žutić and Lee 2012).

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

Two authors: (Žutić and Lee 2012)
Three authors: (Sousa-Nunes, Yee, and Gould 2011)
4 or more authors: (Holmes et al. 2006)

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