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

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

Mátyás C. Forecasts needed for retreating forests. Nature. 2010 Apr 29;464(7293):1271.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belcher CM, McElwain JC. Limits for combustion in low O2 redefine paleoatmospheric predictions for the Mesozoic. Science. 2008 Aug 29;321(5893):1197–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön JH, Meng H, Bao Z. Field-effect modulation of the conductance of single molecules. Science. 2001 Dec 7;294(5549):2138–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Louie KB, Bowen BP, McAlhany S, Huang Y, Price JC, Mao JH, et al. Mass spectrometry imaging for in situ kinetic histochemistry. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1656.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barrett-Lennard GT. The Relationship Inventory. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Świątek J, Borzemski L, Grzech A, Wilimowska Z, editors. Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2015 – Part III. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XIV, 221 p. 71 illus., 29 illus. in color. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 431).

A chapter in an edited book

Kumpulainen K, Lankinen T. Striving for Educational Equity and Excellence. In: Niemi H, Toom A, Kallioniemi A, editors. Miracle of Education: The Principles and Practices of Teaching and Learning in Finnish Schools (Second Revised Edition). Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016. p. 71–82.

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 Rural Health.

Blog post

Andrew E. Comet Dust Discovered On Earth’s Surface For The First Time Ever [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/comet-dust-discovered-earth-s-surface-first-time-ever/

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. Technology Transfers: Benefits of Cooperative R&D Agreements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Dec. Report No.: RCED-95-52.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Laffitte L. A Comparison of Pull-Out and Co-Teaching Models on the Reading Performance of Third through Fifth Grade Elementary Students with a Diagnosed Specific Learning Disability in Reading [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2012.

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

Billard M. A Closet Is the Highest Form of Flattery. New York Times. 2014 Feb 6;E8.

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	Australian Journal of Rural Health
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Rural Health
ISSN (print)	1038-5282
ISSN (online)	1440-1584
Scope	Family Practice Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health