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

Wilson TL. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Nature. 2001 Feb 22;409(6823):1110–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hor H, Tafti M. Physiology. How much sleep do we need? Science. 2009 Aug 14;325(5942):825–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chandrappa GT, Steunou N, Livage J. Materials chemistry: macroporous crystalline vanadium oxide foam. Nature. 2002 Apr 18;416(6882):702.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pham NH, Ohya S, Tanaka M, Barnes SE, Maekawa S. Electromotive force and huge magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions. Nature. 2009 Mar 26;458(7237):489–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kay R. Statistical Thinking for Non-Statisticians in Drug Regulation. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Akoka J, Liddle SW, Song IY, Bertolotto M, Comyn-Wattiau I, Heuvel WJ van D, et al., editors. Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2005 Workshops AOIS, BP-UML, CoMoGIS, eCOMO, and QoIS, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. XXII, 480 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3770).

A chapter in an edited book

Wasaki J, Maruyama H. Molecular Approaches to the Study of Biological Phosphorus Cycling. In: Bünemann E, Oberson A, Frossard E, editors. Phosphorus in Action: Biological Processes in Soil Phosphorus Cycling. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 93–111. (Varma A, editor. Soil Biology).

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 D. Spacing Of Letters, Not Shape Of Letters, Slightly Increases Reading Speed Of Those With Dyslexia [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/spacing-of-letters-not-shape-of-letters-slightly-increases-reading-speed-of-those-with-dyslexia/

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. FTA New York Mass Transit Grants: False Statements to FTA Grantee/Grantee Violations of Contracting Policy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Sep. Report No.: OSI-92-7.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gauen KE. The impact of the Instructional Practices Inventory at an Illinois middle school [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2009.

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

Vecsey G. Pettitte’s Words And Character Carry Weight. New York Times. 2010 Aug 20;B10.

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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