How to format your references using the Annals of Global Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Global 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

Greenberg DL. Comment on “Detecting awareness in the vegetative state.” Science. 2007;315(5816):1221; author reply 1221.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beninger RJ, Quinsey VL. Animal behaviour: chimpanzee choice and prosociality. Nature. 2006;440(7085):E6; discussion E6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmidt D, Jiang QX, MacKinnon R. Phospholipids and the origin of cationic gating charges in voltage sensors. Nature. 2006;444(7120):775-779.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vassylyev DG, Sekine SI, Laptenko O, et al. Crystal structure of a bacterial RNA polymerase holoenzyme at 2.6 A resolution. Nature. 2002;417(6890):712-719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor D. God, Evil, and Design. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2009.

An edited book

Merkuryev Y, Merkuryeva G, Piera MÀ, Guasch A, eds. Simulation-Based Case Studies in Logistics: Education and Applied Research. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Herrington G. Interoperability - A Requirement for Tackling Gun Crime. In: Akhgar B, Yates S, eds. Intelligence Management: Knowledge Driven Frameworks for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer; 2011:49-60.

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 Annals of Global Health.

Blog post

Fang J. How Do Bats Find The Right Carnivorous Plants For Safe Roosting? IFLScience. July 11, 2015.

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. Army Aviation Requirements. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Malet DS. Foreign Fighters: Transnational Identity in Civil Conflicts. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

Talbot M. Revisiting the Revolution, This Time as a Tourist. New York Times. March 9, 2014:TR4.

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	Annals of Global Health
Abbreviation	Ann. Glob. Health
ISSN (print)	2214-9996
Scope