How to format your references using the Bangladesh Journal of Child Health citation style

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

Firestein GS. Evolving concepts of rheumatoid arthritis. Nature. 2003 May 15;423(6937):356–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helffrich GR, Wood BJ. The Earth’s mantle. Nature. 2001 Aug 2;412(6846):501–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ragunathan K, Jih G, Moazed D. Epigenetics. Epigenetic inheritance uncoupled from sequence-specific recruitment. Science. 2015 Apr 3;348(6230):1258699.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Möller J, Lühmann T, Chabria M, Hall H, Vogel V. Macrophages lift off surface-bound bacteria using a filopodium-lamellipodium hook-and-shovel mechanism. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct 7;3:2884.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood JM. Wiley Gaap 2015. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Zimmermann KH. DNA Computing Models. Martínez-Pérez I, Ignatova Z, editors. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008. XIV, 288 p. 20 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Montagnini F. Homegardens of Mesoamerica: Biodiversity, food security, and nutrient management. In: Kumar BM, Nair PKR, editors. Tropical Homegardens: A Time-Tested Example of Sustainable Agroforestry. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. p. 61–84. (Nair PKR, editor. Advances in Agroforestry).

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 Bangladesh Journal of Child Health.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Saturn’s Moon Enceladus May Have Been Knocked On Its Side. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/saturns-moon-enceladus-may-have-been-knocked-on-its-side/

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. Alternative to Project Seafarer. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Oct. Report No.: LCD-77-360.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Oparnica D. The role of nurses in health care reform: A project report [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Hartocollis A. Mental Issues Put 34,500 on New York No-Guns List. New York Times. 2014 Oct 19;A1.

In-text citations

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

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	Bangladesh Journal of Child Health
Abbreviation	Banglad. J. Child Health
ISSN (print)	0257-3490
Scope