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

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

King, M.-C. (2014). “The race” to clone BRCA1. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6178), 1462–1465.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis, B. R., & Candotti, F. (2010). Genetics. Mosaicism--switch or spectrum? Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6000), 46–47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Discher, D. E., Mooney, D. J., & Zandstra, P. W. (2009). Growth factors, matrices, and forces combine and control stem cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5935), 1673–1677.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yue, Q., Xiong, S., Cai, D., Wu, Z., & Zhang, X. (2014). Facile and quantitative electrochemical detection of yeast cell apoptosis. Scientific Reports, 4, 4373.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bai, Y. (2010). Practical Database Programming with Visual C#.NET. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bouvry, P., Kłopotek, M. A., Leprévost, F., Marciniak, M., Mykowiecka, A., & Rybiński, H. (Eds.). (2012). Security and Intelligent Information Systems: International Joint Conferences, SIIS 2011, Warsaw, Poland, June 13-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 7053). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hafsaoui, A., Urvoy-Keller, G., Collange, D., Siekkinen, M., & En-Najjary, T. (2011). Understanding the Impact of the Access Technology: The Case of Web Search Services. In J. Domingo-Pascual, Y. Shavitt, & S. Uhlig (Eds.), Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: Third International Workshop, TMA 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 27, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 37–50). 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 Global Public Health.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 19). How Much Does Thor’s Hammer Weigh? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/how-much-does-thor’s-hammer-weigh/

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. (1970). Educational Programs in the Public Schools of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (092764). 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

Katukuri, J. (2012). Relationship Extraction and Link Discovery from Biomedical Literature [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, July 17). In Rare Move, K.K.R. Picks Possible Heirs To Founders. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (King, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Davis & Candotti, 2010; King, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Davis & Candotti, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Yue et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Public Health
Abbreviation	Glob. Public Health
ISSN (print)	1744-1692
ISSN (online)	1744-1706
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health