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. Hand E. Cash crisis could ground NASA rocket. Nature. 2009;461:153.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Siddiqi I, Clarke J. Physics. Entangled solid-state circuits. Science. 2006;313:1400–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chklovskii DB, Mel BW, Svoboda K. Cortical rewiring and information storage. Nature. 2004;431:782–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hale R, Mavrogordato MN, Tolhurst TJ, Solan M. Characterizations of how species mediate ecosystem properties require more comprehensive functional effect descriptors. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6463.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Alvarez PJJ, Illman WA. Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Hansson SO, editor. David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Klees SJ. World Bank and Education. In: Klees SJ, Samoff J, Stromquist NP, editors. The World Bank and Education: Critiques and Alternatives. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012. p. 49–65.

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. Hale T. This New Device Can Trick Your Tastebuds To Make Food Taste Better [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-new-device-can-trick-your-tastebuds-to-make-food-taste-better/

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. Government Civilian Aircraft: Use of Government Aircraft by the Attorney General and FBI Director. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jun. Report No.: GGD-90-84.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nam S. A method for teaching jazz improvisation to beginning pianists in a group setting [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Wagner J. Mets, Shedding Veterans, Send Walker to Brewers. New York Times. 2017 Aug 13;SP5.

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)

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