How to format your references using the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. 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. Pandolfi JM. Ecology: Deep and complex ways to survive bleaching. Nature. 2015;518:43–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Audet P, Bürgmann R. Possible control of subduction zone slow-earthquake periodicity by silica enrichment. Nature. 2014;510:389–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Jones PD, Osborn TJ, Briffa KR. The evolution of climate over the last millennium. Science. 2001;292:662–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang C-C, Lee J-C, Luo S-Y, Kulkarni SS, Huang Y-W, Lee C-C, et al. Regioselective one-pot protection of carbohydrates. Nature. 2007;446:896–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Samuels J. The Trader’s Pendulum. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Stephanidis C, Antona M, editors. Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and Accessibility Practice: 8th International Conference, UAHCI 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part IV. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Servetti A, Masala E, Bucciol P, De Martin JC. Variable Time-Scale Multimedia Streaming Over 802.11 Inter-Vehicle Ad-hoc Networks. In: Abut H, Hansen JHL, Takeda K, editors. Advances for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems: Challenges for International Standards. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007. p. 47–57.

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 Health, Population and Nutrition.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Uncanny Valley: Why We Find Human-Like Robots And Dolls So Creepy [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/uncanny-valley-why-we-find-human-robots-and-dolls-so-creepy/

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. Contractors’ Independent Research and Development Program--Issues and Alternatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975 Jun. Report No.: PSAD-75-82.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pulido MD. Self-Reported Emotional State as a Measure of Interpersonal Vulnerability [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Hartocollis A, David Goodman J. The Rush to Save Rivers’s Life at a Surgery Clinic. New York Times. 2014 Sep 10;A21.

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 Health, Population and Nutrition
Abbreviation	J. Health Popul. Nutr.
ISSN (online)	2072-1315
Scope	Food Science Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health