How to format your references using the Critical Public Health citation style

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

Dalton, R. 2001. “Action Urged to Combat Killer Algae.” Nature 412 (6844): 260.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heinze, Stanley, and Uwe Homberg. 2007. “Maplike Representation of Celestial E-Vector Orientations in the Brain of an Insect.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5814): 995–997.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, Rong, Sean D. Willett, and Liran Goren. 2015. “In Situ Low-Relief Landscape Formation as a Result of River Network Disruption.” Nature 520 (7548): 526–529.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jackson, Robert B., Jay L. Banner, Esteban G. Jobbágy, William T. Pockman, and Diana H. Wall. 2002. “Ecosystem Carbon Loss with Woody Plant Invasion of Grasslands.” Nature 418 (6898): 623–626.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gregory, Jon. 2012. Counterparty Credit Risk and Credit Value Adjustment. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Barbosa, Luís Soares, and Markus Lumpe, eds. 2012. Formal Aspects of Component Software: 7th International Workshop, FACS 2010, Guimarães, Portugal, October 14-16, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 6921. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Yanfei, and Jingen Wang. 2012. “Finite Precision Extended Alternating Projection Neural Network (FPEAP).” In Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications: 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2011, Zhengzhou,China, August 11-14. 2011, Revised Selected Papers, edited by De-Shuang Huang, Yong Gan, Prashan Premaratne, and Kyungsook Han, 20–25. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Critical Public Health.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Spider Masquerades As Bird Poo.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 29. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spider-masquerades-bird-poo/.

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. 1984. Secondary Market Activities of the Student Loan Marketing Association. HRD-84-51. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sparks, George A. 2008. “Charismatic Leadership: An Exploratory Investigation of the Techniques of Influence.” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University.

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

Kolomatsky, Michael. 2017. “The Most Popular During April.” New York Times, May 5, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton 2001; Heinze and Homberg 2007).

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

Two authors: (Heinze and Homberg 2007)
Three authors: (Yang, Willett, and Goren 2015)
4 or more authors: (Jackson et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Critical Public Health
Abbreviation	Crit. Public Health
ISSN (print)	0958-1596
ISSN (online)	1469-3682
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health