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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Urban 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

1. Duster T. Medicine. Race and reification in science. Science. 2005;307:1050–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Andersson C, Read D. Group size and cultural complexity. Nature. 2014;511:E1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Li ACY, Petruccione F, Koch J. Perturbative approach to Markovian open quantum systems. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4887.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Palmer TM, Stanton ML, Young TP, Goheen JR, Pringle RM, Karban R. Breakdown of an ant-plant mutualism follows the loss of large herbivores from an African savanna. Science. 2008;319:192–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Feyel P. Loop-shaping Robust Control. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Papadrakakis M, Stefanou G, Papadopoulos V, editors. Computational Methods in Stochastic Dynamics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ye L, Hou J. Conjugated Polymer Photovoltaic Materials. In: Li Y, editor. Organic Optoelectronic Materials. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 195–239.

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 Urban Health.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Robot Chef That Can Cook 2,000 Meals Set To Go On Sale In 2017 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-chef-home-could-arrive-2017/

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. The Effects of Changes in the Telecommunications Industry on FCC Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Sep. Report No.: 122443.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Uzan E. Secondary Mathematics Pre-Service Teachers’ Processes of Selection and Integration of Technology [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 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. Saslow L. The Power of the Adolescent Pen. New York Times. 2006 Mar 26;14LI8.

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 Urban Health
Abbreviation	J. Urban Health
ISSN (print)	1099-3460
ISSN (online)	1468-2869
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health(social science)