How to format your references using the One Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for One 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

W.L. Romey, Evolution. Real fish attack simulated plankton, Science 337 (2012) 1181–1182.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.K. Volkman, D.L. Hartl, Parasitology. A game of cat and mouth, Science 299 (2003) 353–354.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Kimchi, J. Xu, C. Dulac, A functional circuit underlying male sexual behaviour in the female mouse brain, Nature 448 (2007) 1009–1014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G.L. Früh-Green, D.S. Kelley, S.M. Bernasconi, J.A. Karson, K.A. Ludwig, D.A. Butterfield, C. Boschi, G. Proskurowski, 30,000 years of hydrothermal activity at the lost city vent field, Science 301 (2003) 495–498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.R. Fanchi, Math Refresher for Scientists and Engineers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Liu, Z. Wang, J. Zhang, eds., Dietary Chinese Herbs: Chemistry, Pharmacology and Clinical Evidence, Springer, Vienna, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K.J. Meiwes, H. Meesenburg, J. Eichhorn, C. Jacobsen, P.K. Khanna, Changes in C and N Contents of Soils Under Beech Forests over a Period of 35 Years, in: R. Brumme, P.K. Khanna (Eds.), Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 49–63.

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 One Health.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Shrimp Proves It’s Hardcore By Taking Down Dragonfish And Gets A Surprise Bonus, IFLScience (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, Regulatory Burden, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Bradford, Internationalization Policy at the Genba: Exploring the Implementation of Social Science English-Taught Undergraduate Degree Programs in Three Japanese Universities, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2015.

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]

B. Kelly, M. London, Bright Spots in the Rain Forest, New York Times (2004) A27.

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	One Health
Abbreviation	One Health
ISSN (print)	2352-7714
Scope