How to format your references using the Australian Journal of Primary Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Journal of Primary 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

Turrigiano G (2014) Neurobiology: Keeping a lid on it. Nature 511(7509), 297–298.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin LB, Coon CAC (2010) Immunology. Infection protection and natural selection. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330(6004), 602–603.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakuda A, Hayashi A, Tatsumisago M (2013) Sulfide solid electrolyte with favorable mechanical property for all-solid-state lithium battery. Scientific reports 3, 2261.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Muhar M, Ebert A, Neumann T, Umkehrer C, Jude J, Wieshofer C, Rescheneder P, Lipp JJ, Herzog VA, Reichholf B, Cisneros DA, Hoffmann T, Schlapansky MF, Bhat P, von Haeseler A, Köcher T, Obenauf AC, Popow J, Ameres SL, Zuber J (2018) SLAM-seq defines direct gene-regulatory functions of the BRD4-MYC axis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 360(6390), 800–805.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Unmehopa M, Vemuri K, Bennett A (2006) ‘Parlay/OSA’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK).

An edited book

Doerfler W, Böhm P (Eds) (2016) ‘Epigenetics - A Different Way of Looking at Genetics.’ 1st ed. 2016. (Springer International Publishing: Cham).

A chapter in an edited book

Joardder MUH, Karim A, Kumar C, Brown RJ (2016) Effect of Porosity on Drying Kinetics and Food Properties. In ‘Porosity: Establishing the Relationship between Drying Parameters and Dried Food Quality.’ SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition. (Eds A Karim, C Kumar, RJ Brown) pp. 47–64. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

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 Australian Journal of Primary Health.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) This 800-Year-Old Man Was Probably Killed By A Boomerang. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-800yearold-man-was-probably-killed-by-a-boomerang/ [accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office (2012) Aviation Safety: FAA Has An Opportunity to Enhance Safety and Improve Oversight of Initial Pilot Training. GAO-12-537T. 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

Shaw RM (2012) The influence of organizational culture on employee attitudes towards information security policy. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

LaFORGIA M (2017) Delaying Repairs on Decrepit Tracks. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Turrigiano 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Martin and Coon 2010; Turrigiano 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Martin and Coon 2010)
Three or more authors: (Muhar et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Journal of Primary Health
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Prim. Health
ISSN (print)	1448-7527
ISSN (online)	1836-7399
Scope	Health Policy Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health