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

Ley RE. The gene-microbe link. Nature. 2015 Feb 26;518(7540):S7.

A journal article with 2 authors

King-Jones K, Thummel CS. Developmental biology. Less steroids make bigger flies. Science. 2005 Oct 28;310(5748):630–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee S, Bluemle MJ, Bates FS. Discovery of a Frank-Kasper sigma phase in sphere-forming block copolymer melts. Science. 2010 Oct 15;330(6002):349–53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang W, Guo S, Lee I, Ahmed K, Zhong J, Favors Z, et al. Hydrous ruthenium oxide nanoparticles anchored to graphene and carbon nanotube hybrid foam for supercapacitors. Sci Rep. 2014 Mar 25;4:4452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad A. Wireless and Mobile Data Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Schabacker M, Gericke K, Szélig N, Vajna S, editors. Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference 2013. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. VIII, 203 p. 72 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Awrejcewicz J. Thermoelastic Contact of Two Moving Layers with Friction and Wear. In: Awrejcewicz J, editor. Nonsmooth Dynamics of Contacting Thermoelastic Bodies. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 1–15. (Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics).

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

Hale T. Antarctic’s Gigantic Ice Crack Is Fast Approaching Crunch Time [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/antarctics-gigantic-ice-crack-is-fast-approaching-crunch-time/

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. Joint Strike Fighter: Progress Made and Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Mar. Report No.: GAO-07-360.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grether S. All You Need is Love? An Examination of Interracial Divorce [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

Tomasky M. The Silence of the Democrats. New York Times. 2017 Oct 30;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
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