How to format your references using the WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public 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

Reiffel L. Sagan breached security by revealing US work on a lunar bomb project. Nature. 2000 May 4;405(6782):13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brumfiel G, Marris E. Physics wins the US budget race. Nature. 2006 Feb 9;439(7077):644–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grant AN, Brönnimann S, Haimberger L. Recent Arctic warming vertical structure contested. Nature. 2008 Sep 11;455(7210):E2-3; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nakano H, Hibino T, Oji T, Hara Y, Amemiya S. Larval stages of a living sea lily (stalked crinoid echinoderm). Nature. 2003 Jan 9;421(6919):158–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massari M, Gianfrate G, Zanetti L. Corporate Valuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Chaudhuri S, Farzan A, editors. Computer Aided Verification: 28th International Conference, CAV 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17-23, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XVII, 521 p. 126 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 9780).

A chapter in an edited book

Narita H, Harusawa K, Yagihashi M, Fujimoto H. A Trial of Numerical Calculation of Wear for Artificial Hip Joints. In: Shirase K, Aoyagi S, editors. Service Robotics and Mechatronics: Selected Papers of the International Conference on Machine Automation ICMA2008. London: Springer; 2010. p. 21–6.

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 WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health.

Blog post

Andrew E. Two-Faced Cat Dies Aged 15. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Student Loans: Effect of Including Certain Types of Loans in Calculating Schools’ Default Rates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Apr. Report No.: HEHS-98-135R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Griffin JC. Animal and soul: Animals in Native American mythologies and the individuation process [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

Barron J. The Coda to a Remarkable Career: Barbara Cook Has Retired. New York Times. 2017 May 7;A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health
Abbreviation	WHO South East Asia J. Public Health
ISSN (print)	2224-3151
ISSN (online)	2304-5272
Scope