How to format your references using the Journal of Infection and Public Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Infection and Public 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]

Marx V. Cancer treatment: Sharp shooters. Nature 2014;508:133–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Amack JD, Manning ML. Knowing the boundaries: extending the differential adhesion hypothesis in embryonic cell sorting. Science 2012;338:212–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kim J, Park S-M, Cho K-H. Discovery of a kernel for controlling biomolecular regulatory networks. Sci Rep 2013;3:2223.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pascal AA, Liu Z, Broess K, van Oort B, van Amerongen H, Wang C, et al. Molecular basis of photoprotection and control of photosynthetic light-harvesting. Nature 2005;436:134–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wei J. Great Inventions that Changed the World. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Vinh PC, Hung NM, Tung NT, Suzuki J, editors. Context-Aware Systems and Applications: First International Conference, ICCASA 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 26-27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 109. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dimian M, Andrei P. Noise Spectral Density of Hysteretic Systems. In: Andrei P, editor. Noise-Driven Phenomena in Hysteretic Systems, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 167–200.

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 Infection and Public Health.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Norwegian Governments Votes To Go Carbon Neutral By 2030. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/norwegian-governments-votes-to-go-carbon-neutral-by-2030/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs: Distribution of Fiscal Year 2000 Indian Reservation Roads Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pitron JE. The influence of exemplary followership on organizational performance: A phenomenological approach. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2008.

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]

Johnston K. Quotation of the Day. New York Times 2011:A2.

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 Infection and Public Health
Abbreviation	J. Infect. Public Health
ISSN (print)	1876-0341
Scope	General Medicine Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health