How to format your references using the European Journal of Public Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Public Health (EJPH). 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

Vastag B. Assembly work. Nature 2008;453:422–23.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bonduriansky R, Brassil CE. Senescence: rapid and costly ageing in wild male flies. Nature 2002;420:377.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lowes MA, Bowcock AM, Krueger JG. Pathogenesis and therapy of psoriasis. Nature 2007;445:866–73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kopp VI, Churikov VM, Singer J, Chao N, Neugroschl D, Genack AZ. Chiral fiber gratings. Science 2004;305:74–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooke RM, Nieboer D, Misiewicz J. Fat-Tailed Distributions: Volume 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

Forsmark CE, Gardner TB, editors. Prediction and Management of Severe Acute Pancreatitis. New York, NY: Springer, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Saniei M. Human Embryo Research and Islamic Bioethics: A View from Iran. In: Schildmann J, Sandow V, Rauprich O, Vollmann J, editors Human Medical Research: Ethical, Legal and Socio-Cultural Aspects. Basel: Springer, 2012; 29–41.

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 European Journal of Public Health.

Blog post

Hale T. Wikipedia Might Not Be The Democratic Community We Think It Is. IFLScience. 2016.URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/wikipedia-might-not-be-open-access-democracy-we-think/ Accessed 30 October 2018.

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. [Comments on Federal Employee’s Entitlement to Relocation Expenses Pursuant to Proposed Transfer to FAA]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Obasi FI. Policy analysis of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008. 2012.

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

Billard M. If Your Boyfriend Is Metrosexual. New York Times. 2010;E5.

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	European Journal of Public Health
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Public Health
ISSN (print)	1101-1262
ISSN (online)	1464-360X
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health