How to format your references using the Smart Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Smart 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

de Duve, C. (2005). The onset of selection. Nature, 433(7026), 581–582.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sharma, P., & Allison, J. P. (2012). Retrospective. Lloyd J. Old (1933-2011). Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6064), 49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wiser, M. J., Ribeck, N., & Lenski, R. E. (2013). Long-term dynamics of adaptation in asexual populations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6164), 1364–1367.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kustikova, O., Fehse, B., Modlich, U., Yang, M., Düllmann, J., Kamino, K., von Neuhoff, N., Schlegelberger, B., Li, Z., & Baum, C. (2005). Clonal dominance of hematopoietic stem cells triggered by retroviral gene marking. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5725), 1171–1174.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hasslacher, C., & Böhm, S. (2005). Diabetes and the Kidney. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Edward, S. G. (2015). Practical MongoDB: Architecting, Developing, and Administering MongoDB (N. Sabharwal, Ed.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Curran, J. M., & Rosen, D. E. (2015). Reconceptualizing Trust: An Evolutionary Process Model. In J. B. Ford & E. D. Honeycutt Jr. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1998 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference (pp. 26–26). Springer International Publishing.

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 Smart Health.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, July 26). Two Different Species Of Dolphins Have Formed An Alliance In The Bahamas. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dolphin-species-hang-out-together-bahamas/

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. (1986). Relaxation of the Common Failure Rate Assumption in Modelling Software Reliability (130464). 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

Washburn, S. J. (2006). The Epiphytic Macrolichens of the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, Metropolitan Area [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, April 15). Asked Yet Again for Multiple Innings, Mets’ Bullpen Lets a Game Slip Away. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Duve, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (de Duve, 2005; Sharma & Allison, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Sharma & Allison, 2012)
Three authors: (Wiser et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Kustikova et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Smart Health
Abbreviation	Smart Health
ISSN (print)	2352-6483
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