How to format your references using the Conflict and Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Conflict and 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

1. Lawrence PA. Rank injustice. Nature. 2002;415:835–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Prejean SG, Haney MM. Geophysics. Shaking up volcanoes. Science. 2014;345:39.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kelber A, Balkenius A, Warrant EJ. Scotopic colour vision in nocturnal hawkmoths. Nature. 2002;419:922–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Jackson JP, Lindroth AM, Cao X, Jacobsen SE. Control of CpNpG DNA methylation by the KRYPTONITE histone H3 methyltransferase. Nature. 2002;416:556–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Adámek J. Foundations of Coding. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1991.

An edited book

1. Makki SK, Li X-Y, Pissinou N, Makki S, Karimi M, Makki K, editors. Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks: Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kuznyetsov V. Problem of Pops Management in Ukraine: the Lack of Interdepartmental Cooperation and Public Involvement. In: Mehmetli E, Koumanova B, editors. The Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Environment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 51–64.

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 Conflict and Health.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Physicists Show A Bizarre Connection Between Black Holes And Superfluid Helium. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Charter Schools: Use of Start-Up Grant Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Apr. Report No.: HEHS-98-150R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Canan D. Action Research Study on the Gradual Release of Responsibility, Critical Thinking Skills and Use of Intertextuality in a Midwest Suburban High School Setting [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2016.

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. Sisario B, Spencer H, Ember S. Magazine Loses Suit Charging Defamation. New York Times. 2016 Nov 4;B1.

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	Conflict and Health
Abbreviation	Confl. Health
ISSN (online)	1752-1505
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health(social science)