How to format your references using the AIMS Public Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Rodnina MV (2013) Biochemistry. Translocation in action. Science 340: 1534–1535.

A journal article with 2 authors

Siller S, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. steven.siller@zoo.ox.ac.uk (2001) Sexual selection and the maintenance of sex. Nature 411: 689–692.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shevenell AE, Kennett JP, Lea DW (2004) Middle Miocene Southern Ocean cooling and Antarctic cryosphere expansion. Science 305: 1766–1770.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Erbse A, Schmidt R, Bornemann T, et al. (2006) ClpS is an essential component of the N-end rule pathway in Escherichia coli. Nature 439: 753–756.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoffmann K (2005) System Integration, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Aroyo L, Welty C, Alani H, et al. (Eds.) (2011) The Semantic Web – ISWC 2011: 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang M, Rao R (2011) Indoor Positioning Data Obstacle Avoidance and Visualization Framework Based on A* Algorithm, In: Deng H, Miao D, Lei J, et al. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence: Third International Conference, AICI 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 26–33.

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 AIMS Public Health.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) IFLScience, Your Brain Is ‘Hard-Wired’ To React Without Thinking, 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/your-brain-hard-wired-react-without-thinking/.

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 (2002) Air Force Aircraft: Preliminary Information on Air Force Tanker Leasing, Washington, DC, 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

Markarian LA (2010) Strengths, challenges, and quality of life of ALS caregivers.

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

Schwartz J (2017) High-Stakes Test for Carbon Capture. New York Times D1.

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	AIMS Public Health
ISSN (online)	2327-8994
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