How to format your references using the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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]
Di Santo JP. Immunology. A guardian of T cell fate. Science 2010; 329: 44–45.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Gano S, Kinzler R. SPORE series winner. Bringing the museum into the classroom. Science 2011; 331: 1028–1029.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Ozaki M, Kato J-I, Kawata S. Surface-plasmon holography with white-light illumination. Science 2011; 332: 218–220.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
Tian D, Traw MB, Chen JQ, et al. Fitness costs of R-gene-mediated resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 2003; 423: 74–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Alexander M, Walkenbach J. 101 Ready-to-Use Excel® Macros. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.
An edited book
[1]
Picken MM, Herrera GA, Dogan A (eds). Amyloid and Related Disorders: Surgical Pathology and Clinical Correlations. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Redmond U, Harrigan M, Cunningham P. Mining Dense Structures to Uncover Anomalous Behaviour in Financial Network Data. In: Atzmueller M, Chin A, Helic D, et al. (eds) Modeling and Mining Ubiquitous Social Media: International Workshops MSM 2011, Boston, MA, USA, October 9, 2011, and MUSE 2011, Athens, Greece, September 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 60–76.

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 Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.

Blog post
[1]
Hale T. Photos Of Florida Panther Kittens Show This Rare Subspecies Is On The Up. IFLScience.

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. Training Necessary to Address Data Reliability Issues in NASA Agreement Database and to Minimize Potential Competition with Commercial Sector. GAO-11-552R, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 26 May 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Meijer K. Let the Gods Dance: Transformation Through Haitian Dance. Doctoral Dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015.

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]
Schilling MK. The Accidental Tourist. New York Times, 9 May 2017, p. M2106.

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 titleScandinavian Journal of Public Health
AbbreviationScand. J. Public Health
ISSN (print)1403-4948
ISSN (online)1651-1905
ScopeGeneral Medicine
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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