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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of 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	Download the output style file
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

Guthrie RD (2006) New carbon dates link climatic change with human colonization and Pleistocene extinctions. Nature 441:207–209

A journal article with 2 authors

Stewart JR, Stringer CB (2012) Human evolution out of Africa: the role of refugia and climate change. Science 335:1317–1321

A journal article with 3 authors

Loubeyre P, Occelli F, LeToullec R (2002) Optical studies of solid hydrogen to 320 GPa and evidence for black hydrogen. Nature 416:613–617

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mazel CH, Cronin TW, Caldwell RL, Marshall NJ (2004) Fluorescent enhancement of signaling in a mantis shrimp. Science 303:51

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Strome TL (2013) Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zang A, Stephansson O, Dresen G (eds) (2006) Rock Damage and Fluid Transport, Part II. Birkhäuser, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Bray M (2007) Cross-Species Transmission of Poxviruses. In: Fong IW, Alibeck K (eds) New and Evolving Infections of the 21st Century. Springer, New York, NY, pp 129–159

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 Public Health.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Discover A New Taste. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1994) Pell Grants for Prison Inmates. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Arnold DM (2017) An Examination of Job Satisfaction Among Full-Time Faculty in a Selected Mississippi Community College. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Koblin J (2017) Season Of Change For Emmys. New York Times C1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Guthrie 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Guthrie 2006; Stewart and Stringer 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Stewart and Stringer 2012)
Three or more authors: (Mazel et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Public Health
Abbreviation	Z. Gesundh. Wiss.
ISSN (print)	2198-1833
ISSN (online)	1613-2238
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health