How to format your references using the Safety in Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Safety in 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. Schnabel J. Vaccines: chasing the dream. Nature. 2011;475:S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ives AR, Cardinale BJ. Food-web interactions govern the resistance of communities after non-random extinctions. Nature. 2004;429:174–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Humphries MM, Thomas DW, Speakman JR. Climate-mediated energetic constraints on the distribution of hibernating mammals. Nature. 2002;418:313–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang L, Wang Z, Zhang Y, Li X. How human location-specific contact patterns impact spatial transmission between populations? Sci Rep. 2013;3:1468.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bhalla S, Moharana S, Talakokula V, Kaur N. Piezoelectric Materials. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Sellers M, editor. Autonomy: In the Law. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bombile M. Visual Servoing Based Positioning and Object Tracking on Humanoid Robot. In: Elleithy K, Sobh T, editors. New Trends in Networking, Computing, E-learning, Systems Sciences, and Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 19–27.

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 Safety in Health.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Nearby Earth-Like World Proxima B May Have A Global Ocean [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nearby-earthlike-world-proxima-b-may-have-a-global-ocean/

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. Statutory Copyright Licensing: Implications of a Phaseout on Access to Television Programming and Consumer Prices Are Unclear. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Nov. Report No.: GAO-12-75.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fister TW. Activating the art classroom: Combining critical pedagogy, visual culture and socially engaged art to promote agency amongst high school students [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Widdicombe B. Diamonds (and Other Gems) That Are Forever. New York Times. 2016 Oct 25;D10.

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	Safety in Health
Abbreviation	Saf. Health
ISSN (online)	2056-5917
Scope