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

Sanderson, K. (2011). Lignocellulose: A chewy problem. Nature, 474(7352), S12-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dupuy, T. J., & Kraus, A. L. (2013). Distances, luminosities, and temperatures of the coldest known substellar objects. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6153), 1492–1495.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shaw, S. L., Kamyar, R., & Ehrhardt, D. W. (2003). Sustained microtubule treadmilling in Arabidopsis cortical arrays. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5626), 1715–1718.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Beauchamp, G. K., Keast, R. S. J., Morel, D., Lin, J., Pika, J., Han, Q., Lee, C.-H., Smith, A. B., & Breslin, P. A. S. (2005). Phytochemistry: ibuprofen-like activity in extra-virgin olive oil. Nature, 437(7055), 45–46.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laster, B. (2016). Professional Git®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Martinez-de Dios, J. R. (2014). A Remote Integrated Testbed for Cooperating Objects (A. Jimenez-Gonzalez, A. de San Bernabe, & A. Ollero, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Asrani, R. (2015). Economic Implications of Intellectual Property Rights in Evolving Markets. In M. J. Manimala & K. P. Wasdani (Eds.), Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Perspectives from Emerging Economies (pp. 109–131). Springer India.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, June 18). Huge Dust Cloud Discovered Around The Moon – But ‘Lunar Glow’ Remains A Mystery. IFLScience; 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

Government Accountability Office. (1991). Air Force Stock Fund: Hydrazine Sales Consistent with the Commercial Space Launch Act (NSIAD-91-196). 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

Stevenson, M. (2008). A change for the future: Presidents and deans real and ideal leadership practices at community and junior colleges in Mississippi [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Feeney, K. (2007, October 14). Sandwiches From an Heirloom. New York Times, 14NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sanderson, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Dupuy & Kraus, 2013; Sanderson, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Dupuy & Kraus, 2013)
Three authors: (Shaw et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Beauchamp et al., 2005)

About the journal

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