How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Health Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Health Sciences. 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

[1]

A. Liljas, Biochemistry. Leaps in translational elongation, Science 326 (2009) 677–678.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.J. Enquist, K.J. Niklas, Invariant scaling relations across tree-dominated communities, Nature 410 (2001) 655–660.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.P. Haskell, M.E. Ritchie, H. Olff, Fractal geometry predicts varying body size scaling relationships for mammal and bird home ranges, Nature 418 (2002) 527–530.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-B. Zhang, Z.-C. Cai, T.-B. Zhu, W.-Y. Yang, C. Müller, Mechanisms for the retention of inorganic N in acidic forest soils of southern China, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2342.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.K. Baker, G.S. Martin, Capital Structure and Corporate Financing Decisions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

G. Singh, ed., Oncodynamics: Effects of Cancer Cells on the Body, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.W. Ali, Y. Mehta, Heavy Vehicle Simulator and Accelerated Pavement Testing Facility at Rowan University, in: J.P. Aguiar-Moya, A. Vargas-Nordcbeck, F. Leiva-Villacorta, L.G. Loría-Salazar (Eds.), The Roles of Accelerated Pavement Testing in Pavement Sustainability: Engineering, Environment, and Economics, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 53–64.

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 Asian Journal of Health Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, NASA Just Revealed 12 New Astronauts - But No One Knows Where They’re Going, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-just-revealed-12-new-astronauts-but-no-one-knows-where-theyre-going/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Costs and Benefits of a Common Strategic Rotary Launcher Should Be Reassessed Before Further Funds Are Available, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

F. Al-Alawadhi, Oral History of Women Educators in Kuwait: A Comparative Model of Care Ethics Between Noddings and Al-Ghazali, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2014.

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

[1]

S. Hodara, Depicting Envy, ‘the Most Corrosive of the Sins,’ New York Times (2015) WE8.

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	Asian Journal of Health Sciences
ISSN (print)	1878-5263
Scope