How to format your references using the Sustainable Healthcare citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sustainable Healthcare. 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. Wadman M. Path to approval proves rocky for copycat biodrugs. Nature. 2005;438:154–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Richardson TL, Jackson GA. Small phytoplankton and carbon export from the surface ocean. Science. 2007;315:838–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Shembade N, Ma A, Harhaj EW. Inhibition of NF-kappaB signaling by A20 through disruption of ubiquitin enzyme complexes. Science. 2010;327:1135–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lü X-Y, Zhang W-M, Ashhab S, Wu Y, Nori F. Quantum-criticality-induced strong Kerr nonlinearities in optomechanical systems. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2943.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Groves E. The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Jikeli G, Allouche-Benayoun J, editors. Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communities: Sources, Comparisons and Educational Challenges. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Serré P, Rivière A, Clément A. Dependence and Independence of Variations of a Geometric Object. In: Davidson JK, editor. Models for Computer Aided Tolerancing in Design and Manufacturing: Selected Conference Papers from the 9th CIRP International Seminar on Computer-Aided Tolerancing, held at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, 10-12 April, 2005. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 23–34.

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 Sustainable Healthcare.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Male Snakes Invest Lots of Energy in Producing Mating Plugs. IFLScience. 2015. Accessed 30 Oct 2018.

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. Telecommunications: FCC Procedures Delay Release of Decision Documents. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Golf F. Search for New Physics in a Final State with Same-Sign Dileptons, Jets, and Missing Transverse Energy at 7 TeV Center of Mass Energy. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego; 2012.

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. Powell M. Zen Phil Exits The Garden. The Knicks Will Endure. New York Times. 2017;:B9.

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	Sustainable Healthcare
ISSN (print)	2045-998X
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