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]

A. Mignan, The debate on the prognostic value of earthquake foreshocks: a meta-analysis, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4099.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.W. Friedrich, K.W. Finster, Geochemistry. How sulfur beats iron, Science. 344 (2014) 974–975.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.R. Sánchez-Villagra, O. Aguilera, I. Horovitz, The anatomy of the world’s largest extinct rodent, Science. 301 (2003) 1708–1710.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Gan, O. Stegle, J. Behr, J.G. Steffen, P. Drewe, K.L. Hildebrand, R. Lyngsoe, S.J. Schultheiss, E.J. Osborne, V.T. Sreedharan, A. Kahles, R. Bohnert, G. Jean, P. Derwent, P. Kersey, E.J. Belfield, N.P. Harberd, E. Kemen, C. Toomajian, P.X. Kover, R.M. Clark, G. Rätsch, R. Mott, Multiple reference genomes and transcriptomes for Arabidopsis thaliana, Nature. 477 (2011) 419–423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

I. Dincer, M.A. Rosen, P. Ahmadi, Optimization of Energy Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

R. Greil, L. Pleyer, V. Faber, D. Neureiter, eds., Chronic Myeloid Neoplasias and Clonal Overlap Syndromes: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Treatment Options, Springer, Vienna, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z. Liu, X. Chen, Model-Driven Design of Object and Component Systems, in: Z. Liu, Z. Zhang (Eds.), Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems: First International School, SETSS 2014, Chongqing, China, September 8-13, 2014. Tutorial Lectures, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 152–255.

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]

B. Taub, Wind Instrument Players Warned Over Hygiene After Man Is Killed By His Bagpipes, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/wind-instrument-players-warned-over-hygiene-after-man-killed-bagpipes/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, VA Information Technology: Progress Continues Although Vulnerabilities Remain, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.K. Hong, Stomach cancer diet education and screening awareness in East Asian American women, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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. Sisario, Pentatonix Album Tops Billboard’s Chart Again, New York Times. (2017) C2.

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