How to format your references using the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 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. Gewin V. The spread of postdoc unions. Nature. 2010;467:739–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Smith SA, Donoghue MJ. Rates of molecular evolution are linked to life history in flowering plants. Science. 2008;322:86–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Killian NJ, Jutras MJ, Buffalo EA. A map of visual space in the primate entorhinal cortex. Nature. 2012;491:761–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liu G, Seiler H, Wen A, Zars T, Ito K, Wolf R, et al. Distinct memory traces for two visual features in the Drosophila brain. Nature. 2006;439:551–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Brown R. Rational Choice and Judgment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Hülsmann M, Scholz-Reiter B, Windt K, editors. Autonomous Cooperation and Control in Logistics: Contributions and Limitations - Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Usher R, Edwards R. The Language Games of Lifelong Learning. In: Edwards R, editor. Lifelong Learning – Signs, Discourses, Practices. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 69–88.

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 Immigrant and Minority Health.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Here’s Why Some People Don’t Like Music [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/heres-why-some-people-dont-like-music/

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. Contracts Awarded by the Social and Rehabilitation Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on a Noncompetitive Basis. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971 Aug. Report No.: B-164031(3).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Garcia AD. Long-term shifts in adolescent Nicotine reward following early methylphenidate exposure in male and female rats [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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. Wagner J. Author of Mets’ Run Acts as Open Book. New York Times. 2016 Oct 4;B9.

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 Immigrant and Minority Health
Abbreviation	J. Immigr. Minor. Health
ISSN (print)	1557-1912
ISSN (online)	1557-1920
Scope	Epidemiology Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health