How to format your references using the Prevention Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Prevention Science. 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

Dalton, R. (2000). Astronomers fight to save telescope. Nature, 406(6791), 8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang, X., & Su, H. (2014). Cuprate-like electronic properties in superlattices with Ag(II)F₂ square sheet. Scientific reports, 4, 5420.

A journal article with 3 authors

Olsen, A., Vantipalli, M. C., & Lithgow, G. J. (2006). Checkpoint proteins control survival of the postmitotic cells in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5778), 1381–1385.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Su, D., Xie, X., Dou, S., & Wang, G. (2014). CuO single crystal with exposed {001} facets--a highly efficient material for gas sensing and Li-ion battery applications. Scientific reports, 4, 5753.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kivy, P. (2011). Once-Told Tales. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Kurosu, M. (Ed.). (2011). Human Centered Design: Second International Conference, HCD 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6776). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kulić, M. L., & Buzdin, A. I. (2008). Coexistence of Singlet Superconductivity and Magnetic Order in Bulk Magnetic Superconductors and SF Heterostructures. In K. H. Bennemann & J. B. Ketterson (Eds.), Superconductivity: Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors (pp. 163–200). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Prevention Science.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, December 14). Humanity Is Not Ready To Face Off Against Asteroids Yet. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/humanity-is-not-ready-to-face-off-against-asteroids-yet/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (1983). Cost Comparison of House of Representatives Page System Versus Regular Messenger Employees (No. GGD-83-108). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cheung, M. (2010). An integrated change model in project management (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Saslow, L. (2007, October 28). Superintendent Takes On Ailing Roosevelt. New York Times, p. 14LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton 2000; Yang and Su 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Yang and Su 2014)
Three or more authors: (Su et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Prevention Science
Abbreviation	Prev. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1389-4986
ISSN (online)	1573-6695
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health