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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Public Health Reviews. 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. Ruelle D. Here be no dragons. Nature. 2001;411:27.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Mellor N, Bishopp A. Plant science. The innermost secrets of root development. Science. 2014;345:622–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Giulini A, Wang J, Jackson D. Control of phyllotaxy by the cytokinin-inducible response regulator homologue ABPHYL1. Nature. 2004;430:1031–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liu KSY, Siebert M, Mertel S, Knoche E, Wegener S, Wichmann C, et al. RIM-binding protein, a central part of the active zone, is essential for neurotransmitter release. Science. 2011;334:1565–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Heitz E, Kreysa G. Grundlagen der Technischen Elektrochemie. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Booß-Bavnbek B, Esposito G, Lesch M, editors. New Paths Towards Quantum Gravity. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Xiao T, Zhang C, Zha H, Wei F. Anomaly Detection via Local Coordinate Factorization and Spatio-Temporal Pyramid. In: Cremers D, Reid I, Saito H, Yang M-H, editors. Computer Vision -- ACCV 2014: 12th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Singapore, Singapore, November 1-5, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part V. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 66–82.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

1. Hamilton K. Everyone’s Different: What Parts Of The Brain Make Our Personalities So Unique? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/everyones-different-what-parts-of-the-brain-make-our-personalities-so-unique/

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. Business Systems Modernization: IRS Needs to Complete Recent Efforts to Develop Policies and Procedures to Guide Requirements Development and Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Mar. Report No.: GAO-06-310.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Krisher J. Cell-Matrix Interaction: Activation of the MAP Kinase Signaling Pathway in Salivary Gland Cells [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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. Mueller B, Rashbaum WK. Before Times Sq. Crash, A String of Legal Issues And a Fall Into Paranoia. New York Times. 2017 May 19;A21.

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	Public Health Reviews
Abbreviation	Public Health Rev.
ISSN (online)	2107-6952
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Community and Home Care