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]

Heeney JL. Ebola: Hidden reservoirs. Nature 2015;527:453–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Buzsáki G, Draguhn A. Neuronal oscillations in cortical networks. Science 2004;304:1926–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sousa T, Marques GM, Domingos T. Comment on “Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny.” Science 2009;325:1206; author reply 1206.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Koh W-K, Koposov AY, Stewart JT, Pal BN, Robel I, Pietryga JM, et al. Heavily doped n-type PbSe and PbS nanocrystals using ground-state charge transfer from cobaltocene. Sci Rep 2013;3:2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Diamond N. Between Skins. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Moreira AL, Saqi A, editors. Diagnosing Non-small Cell Carcinoma in Small Biopsy and Cytology. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dyreson C, Jin H. A Synthetic, Trend-Based Benchmark for XPath. In: Chen L, Liu C, Liu Q, Deng K, editors. Database Systems for Advanced Applications: DASFAA 2009 International Workshops: BenchmarX, MCIS, WDPP, PPDA, MBC, PhD, Brisbane, Australia, April 20 - 23, 2009, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 35–48.

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]

Hamilton K. Should We Still Be Choosing Fat-Free Over Full-Fat Products? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/should-we-still-be-choosing-fat-free-over-full-fat-products/ (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. Non-Federal Computer Acquisition Practices Provide Useful Information for Streamlining Federal Methods. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mednick Takami L. Chief Diversity Officers in U.S. Higher Education: Impacting the Campus Climate for Diversity. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Goldman A, Schmidt MS. F.B.I. Nominee Backs Russia Inquiry and Pledges to Resist White House Pressure. New York Times 2017:A16.

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

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