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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
Sánchez-Bayo F. Environmental science. The trouble with neonicotinoids. Science 2014;346:806–7.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Kump LR, Pollard D. Amplification of Cretaceous warmth by biological cloud feedbacks. Science 2008;320:195.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Deitsch KW, Calderwood MS, Wellems TE. Malaria. Cooperative silencing elements in var genes. Nature 2001;412:875–6.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
[1]
Svedhem H, Titov DV, Taylor FW, Witasse O. Venus as a more Earth-like planet. Nature 2007;450:629–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Colin A. Fixed Income Attribution. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2005.
An edited book
[1]
Canuto C. Analisi Matematica II. vol. 83. 2a edizione. Milano: Springer; 2014.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Epstein B. How Many Kinds of Glue Hold the Social World Together? In: Gallotti M, Michael J, editors. Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014, p. 41–55.

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]
Andrews R. Cheetahs Are Tumbling Toward Extinction. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cheetahs-tumbling-toward-extinction/ (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. Information Technology: Streamlining FHA’s Single Family Housing Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Tripamer AJ. Teacher Perceptions of Teacher Evaluations in the Fort Zumwalt School District. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 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]
Cooper M. Watching Neo-Nazis in Virginia, From Germany. New York Times 2017:C1.

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 titleJournal of Infection and Public Health
AbbreviationJ. Infect. Public Health
ISSN (print)1876-0341
ScopeGeneral Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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