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

Larson RG (2007) Biophysics. Going with the flow. Science 318:57–58

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuo I-FW, Mundy CJ (2004) An ab initio molecular dynamics study of the aqueous liquid-vapor interface. Science 303:658–660

A journal article with 3 authors

Cossart R, Aronov D, Yuste R (2003) Attractor dynamics of network UP states in the neocortex. Nature 423:283–288

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Moore CB, John M, James IR, et al (2002) Evidence of HIV-1 adaptation to HLA-restricted immune responses at a population level. Science 296:1439–1443

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pozzilli P, Lenzi A, Clarke BL, Young WF Jr (2013) Imaging in Endocrinology. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Arino O, Hbid ML, Dads EA (eds) (2006) Delay Differential Equations and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Porteš P, Laurinec M, Blat’ák O (2010) Discrete-Difference Filter in Vehicle Dynamics Analysis. In: Brezina T, Jablonski R (eds) Recent Advances in Mechatronics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 19–24

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 (2014) Women Who Have Children Older, Live Longer. 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 (1993) Transition From School to Work: H.R. 2884 Addresses Components of Comprehensive Strategy. 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

Paulone S (2013) Mergers and Acquisitions: Examining Managerial Strategy Connection to Post Transaction Accounting Measures. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Kelly M (1993) After Waco’s Inferno, an Inquisition That Insists on Rational Answers. New York Times 43

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Larson 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kuo and Mundy 2004; Larson 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kuo and Mundy 2004)
Three or more authors: (Moore et al. 2002)

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