How to format your references using the Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 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

Nave KA. Myelination and support of axonal integrity by glia. Nature. 2010 Nov 11;468(7321):244–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu ET, Love SG. Gravitational tractor for towing asteroids. Nature. 2005 Nov 10;438(7065):177–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mueller K, Hough SE, Bilham R. Analysing the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes with recent instrumentally recorded aftershocks. Nature. 2004 May 20;429(6989):284–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Walker T, Johnson PH, Moreira LA, Iturbe-Ormaetxe I, Frentiu FD, McMeniman CJ, et al. The wMel Wolbachia strain blocks dengue and invades caged Aedes aegypti populations. Nature. 2011 Aug 24;476(7361):450–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pesavento L, Smoleny S. A Trader’s Guide to Financial Astrology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

Llerena P, Matt M, editors. Innovation Policy in a Knowledge-Based Economy: Theory and Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. XII, 362 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Cambria E, Mazzocco T, Hussain A, Durrani T. Switching Between Different Ways to Think. In: Esposito A, Vinciarelli A, Vicsi K, Pelachaud C, Nijholt A, editors. Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment The Processing Issues: COST 2102 International Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 7-10, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 56–69. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal.

Blog post

Andrew D. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Snake Found In Bottled Water. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/live-baby-snake-found-health-ministers-bottled-water/

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. Higher Education: Tuition Increases and Colleges’ Efforts to Contain Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Sep. Report No.: HEHS-98-227.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kuru IC. Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing and Assignment in No-Notice Evacuations [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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

Eder S, Silver-Greenberg J, Cowley S. Watchdog Targeted as an Obama-Era Holdover. New York Times. 2017 Aug 31;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	Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
Abbreviation	East. Mediterr. Health J.
ISSN (print)	1020-3397
ISSN (online)	1687-1634
Scope	General Medicine