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]

Hill F. ASTRONOMY. Waves in the Sun’s core. Science 2007;316:1573–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kaser A, Blumberg RS. Cell biology: Stressful genetics in Crohn’s disease. Nature 2014;506:441–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xu Y, Ramu Y, Lu Z. Removal of phospho-head groups of membrane lipids immobilizes voltage sensors of K+ channels. Nature 2008;451:826–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Price MN, Wetmore KM, Waters RJ, Callaghan M, Ray J, Liu H, et al. Mutant phenotypes for thousands of bacterial genes of unknown function. Nature 2018;557:503–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Benslama M, Boucenna ML, Batatia H. Ad Hoc Networks Telecommunications and Game Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Hajek AE, Glare TR, O’Callaghan M, editors. Use of Microbes for Control and Eradication of Invasive Arthropods. vol. 6. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Borst DE, Boatright JH, Nickerson JM. Molecular Biology of IRBP and Its Role in the Visual Cycle. In: Tombran-Tink J, Barnstable CJ, editors. Visual Transduction and Non-Visual Light Perception, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008, p. 87–122.

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]

Andrew E. Manure From Antibiotic-Free Cows Still Contributing To Resistance. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/manure-antibiotic-free-cows-still-contributing-resistance/ (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. NTSB Access-to-Aircraft Privileges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Brown ER. Comparison of instructional techniques of high school economics teachers in Georgia and Shenzhen, China. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2011.

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]

Novick SM. Farm to Blanket. New York Times 2015:LI8.

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