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. Dalton R. Arizona institute names leader. Nature. 2003;423:6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ettema TJG, Andersson SGE. Comment on “A 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate autotrophic carbon dioxide assimilation pathway in Archaea.” Science. 2008;321:342; author reply 342.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ofstad TA, Zuker CS, Reiser MB. Visual place learning in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature. 2011;474:204–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kasera S, Herrmann LO, del Barrio J, Baumberg JJ, Scherman OA. Quantitative multiplexing with nano-self-assemblies in SERS. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6785.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Brown M, Cutler TJ. Haematology Nursing. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Isokoski P, Springare J, editors. Haptics: Perception, Devices, Mobility, and Communication: International Conference, EuroHaptics 2012, Tampere, Finland, June 13-15, 2012 Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lindström D. Homicide in Scandinavia: Long-Term Trends and Their Interpretations. In: Body-Gendrot S, Spierenburg P, editors. Violence in Europe. New York, NY: Springer; 2008. p. 43–64.

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. Hamilton K. World’s Oldest Muscle-Fibre Fossil Reveals The Origin Of Legs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-oldest-muscle-fibre-fossil-reveals-the-origin-of-legs/

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. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Modernization Effort. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Apr. Report No.: RCED-91-132FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Green RE. From Hart to Hammerstein: The music of Richard Rodgers and his evolution toward the integrated musical [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Gustines GG. First Strokes To Becoming Aquaman. New York Times. 2011 May 27;C27.

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