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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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. Kerr RA. CLIMATE: Ice, Mud Point to CO2 Role in Glacial Cycle. Science. 2000;289:1868.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. Zwierlein MW, Ketterle W. Comment on “Pairing and phase separation in a polarized Fermi gas.” Science. 2006;314:54; author reply 54.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Minto C, Myers RA, Blanchard W. Survival variability and population density in fish populations. Nature. 2008;452:344–7.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1. Cifuentes D, Xue H, Taylor DW, Patnode H, Mishima Y, Cheloufi S, et al. A novel miRNA processing pathway independent of Dicer requires Argonaute2 catalytic activity. Science. 2010;328:1694–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Mariño PP. Optimization of Computer Networks - Modeling and Algorithms. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.
An edited book
1. Knobloch E, Komatsu H, Liu D, editors. Seki, Founder of Modern Mathematics in Japan: A Commemoration on His Tercentenary. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2013.
A chapter in an edited book
1. Pickering S, McCulloch J, Wright-Neville D. Counter-Terrorism Policing. In: McCulloch J, Wright-Neville D, editors. Counter-Terrorism Policing: Community, Cohesion and Security. New York, NY: Springer; 2008. p. 91–111.

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. Fang J. Evaporation-Powered Engine Propels Mini Cars. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Airport Development Needs: Estimating Future Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Apr. Report No.: RCED-97-99.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. Vidal EM. Alcohol disorder with hip or knee surgery: Postoperative alcohol disorder-related costs and length of stay [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Kishkovsky S. Evolving Russia Finds a Recorder Of Its Moment. New York Times. 2012 May 13;AR26.

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 titleJournal of Urban Health
AbbreviationJ. Urban Health
ISSN (print)1099-3460
ISSN (online)1468-2869
ScopePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health(social science)

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