How to format your references using the Public Health Forum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Public Health Forum. 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

Kappe CO. Journal club. A chemist muses on the technique of microwaving flowing chemical reactions. Nature. 2010 Apr 8;464(7290):817.

A journal article with 2 authors

Müser MH, Shakhvorostov D. Applied physics. Why thick can be slick. Science. 2010 Apr 2;328(5974):52–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harker DE, Woodward CE, Wooden DH. The dust grains from 9P/Tempel 1 before and after the encounter with Deep Impact. Science. 2005 Oct 14;310(5746):278–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Koranda M, Schleiffer A, Endler L, Ammerer G. Forkhead-like transcription factors recruit Ndd1 to the chromatin of G2/M-specific promoters. Nature. 2000 Jul 6;406(6791):94–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Loriaux DL. A Biographical History of Endocrinology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Leibe B, Matas J, Sebe N, Welling M, editors. Computer Vision – ECCV 2016: 14th European Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part III. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 9907).

A chapter in an edited book

Erozan YS, Ramzy I. Other Non-neoplastic Conditions. In: Ramzy I, editor. Pulmonary Cytopathology. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014. p. 87–99. (Essentials in Cytopathology).

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 Public Health Forum.

Blog post

Andrew E. Snake Has Yet Another Virgin Birth. 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

Government Accountability Office. Federal Research: Super Collider Is Over Budget and Behind Schedule. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Feb. Report No.: RCED-93-87.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peters A. The mark of gender: Depicting power and the female body in colonial Peru [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

Isaac M, Chira S. Potshot by Uber Director Prompts a Swift Backlash. New York Times. 2017 Jun 13;A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kappe 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kappe 2010; Müser and Shakhvorostov 2010).

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

Two authors: (Müser and Shakhvorostov 2010)
Three or more authors: (Koranda et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Public Health Forum
Abbreviation	Publ. Health For.
ISSN (print)	0944-5587
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health