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]

Aguzzi A. Neurodegeneration: Alzheimer’s disease under strain. Nature 2014;512:32–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dye C, Williams BG. The population dynamics and control of tuberculosis. Science 2010;328:856–61.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fried SD, Bagchi S, Boxer SG. Extreme electric fields power catalysis in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase. Science 2014;346:1510–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dias SJ, Zhou X, Ivanovic M, Gailey MP, Dhar S, Zhang L, et al. Nuclear MTA1 overexpression is associated with aggressive prostate cancer, recurrence and metastasis in African Americans. Sci Rep 2013;3:2331.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Barquinha P, Martins R, Pereira L, Fortunato E. Transparent Oxide Electronics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Anker J-P, Orsted B, editors. Lie Theory: Unitary Representations and Compactifications of Symmetric Spaces. vol. 229. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Parker A, Simari GI, Sliva A, Subrahmanian VS. Experimental Evaluation. In: Simari GI, Sliva A, Subrahmanian VS, editors. Data-driven Generation of Policies, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 37–45.

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. The Bionic Man is No Longer Science Fiction. IFLScience 2013.

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. Credit Reporting Literacy Survey Data, an E-supplement to GAO-05-223. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Das A. Optimizing symbol timing, frequency spacing, and SNR estimation for communication systems. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 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]

Barnes B. In the Footsteps of Marvel. New York Times 2012:B1.

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