How to format your references using the Disaster Health citation style

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

Retallack GJ. Ediacaran life on land. Nature 2013; 493:89–92.

A journal article with 2 authors

deHaseth PL, Nilsen TW. Molecular biology. When a part is as good as the whole. Science 2004; 303:1307–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Volkov I, Banavar JR, Maritan A. Comment on “Computational improvements reveal great bacterial diversity and high metal toxicity in soil.” Science 2006; 313:918; author reply 918.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shinoda T, Ogawa H, Cornelius F, Toyoshima C. Crystal structure of the sodium-potassium pump at 2.4 A resolution. Nature 2009; 459:446–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

D’Andrea A, Sjogren J. Veterinary Technician’s Large Animal Daily Reference Guide. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Bagarello F, Passante R, Trapani C, editors. Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics: Selected Contributions from the 15th International Conference on Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics, Palermo, Italy, 18-23 May 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Frowein JA. Comment: State Responsibility and Peace. In: Nolte G, editor. Peace through International Law: The Role of the International Law Commission. A Colloquium at the Occasion of its Sixtieth Anniversary. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. page 47–51.

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 Disaster Health.

Blog post

Carpineti A. What’s The Chance Of Life On Pluto? [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-s-the-chance-of-life-on-pluto/

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. Highway Research: The Second Strategic Highway Research Program Addresses the Four Required Areas, but Some Anticipated Research Was Not Funded. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woodworth JW. Secure Semantic Search over Encrypted Big Data in the Cloud. 2017;

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

Pilon M. For Coed Grand Slam Event, Reaction Seems to Be Mixed, Too. New York Times2014; :B10.

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	Disaster Health
Abbreviation	Disaster Health
ISSN (print)	2166-5044
ISSN (online)	2166-5052
Scope