How to format your references using the Annual Review of Public Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review 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	Download the output style file
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

LaDue ND. 2015. Help to fight the battle for Earth in US schools. Nature. 519(7542):131

A journal article with 2 authors

Casals F, Bertranpetit J. 2012. Genetics. Human genetic variation, shared and private. Science. 337(6090):39–40

A journal article with 3 authors

Scott BA, Avidan MS, Crowder CM. 2002. Regulation of hypoxic death in C. elegans by the insulin/IGF receptor homolog DAF-2. Science. 296(5577):2388–91

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li T, Chang C-Y, Jin D-Y, Lin P-J, Khvorova A, Stafford DW. 2004. Identification of the gene for vitamin K epoxide reductase. Nature. 427(6974):541–44

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisen PS, Raghuvanshi R. 2013. Emerging Epidemics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

An edited book

Hameurlain A, Küng J, Wagner R, Dang TK, Thoai N, eds. 2016. Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXIII: Selected Papers from FDSE 2014, Vol. 9480. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. IX, 125 p. 50 illus. in color p. 1st ed. 2016 ed.

A chapter in an edited book

Mata F, Levachkine S. 2009. iRank: Integral Ranking of Geographical Information by Semantic, Geographic, and Topological Matching. In Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop, 17-20 May 2009, ed VV Popovich, C Claramunt, M Schrenk, KV Korolenko, pp. 77–92. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Public Health.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2017. No, Aliens Did Not Hack Voyager 2 Back In 2010. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/no-aliens-did-not-hack-voyager-2-back-in-2010/

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. 2003. Federally Funded Research at Institutions of Higher Education, an E-supplement to GAO-04-31. GAO-04-223SP, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ji JH. 2010. Near-field characteristics of wall jets with tabs. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Cooper M. 2017. Met Opera Loses Lead In a High-Stakes ‘Tosca.’ New York Times, June 16, p. C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (3, 4).
This sentence cites four references (3, 4, 7, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Public Health
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Public Health
ISSN (print)	0163-7525
ISSN (online)	1545-2093
Scope	General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health