How to format your references using the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Health Promotion and Education. 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

Barabási, Albert-László. 2005. “Sociology. Network Theory--the Emergence of the Creative Enterprise.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308 (5722): 639–641.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liao, Jie-Qiao, and Franco Nori. 2014. “Single-Photon Quadratic Optomechanics.” Scientific Reports 4 (September 2014): 6302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Titus, Timothy N., Hugh H. Kieffer, and Phillip R. Christensen. 2003. “Exposed Water Ice Discovered near the South Pole of Mars.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5609): 1048–1051.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Urbakh, Michael, Joseph Klafter, Delphine Gourdon, and Jacob Israelachvili. 2004. “The Nonlinear Nature of Friction.” Nature 430 (6999): 525–528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raj, P. Prithvi, and Serdar Erdine. 2012. Pain-Relieving Procedures. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Rome, Erich, and Robin Bloomfield, eds. 2010. Critical Information Infrastructures Security: 4th International Workshop, CRITIS 2009, Bonn, Germany, September 30 - October 2, 2009. Revised Papers. Vol. 6027. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Atay, Fatihcan M. 2016. “Controlling Oscillations in Nonlinear Systems with Delayed Output Feedback.” In Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems, edited by Eckehard Schöll, Sabine H. L. Klapp, and Philipp Hövel, 65–79. Understanding Complex Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 International Journal of Health Promotion and Education.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “Accidental Warning Of Colossal Earthquake Causes Momentary Panic In Japan.” IFLScience, IFLScience, August 3.

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. 2013. National Mediation Board: Strengthening Planning and Controls Could Better Facilitate Rail and Air Labor Relations. GAO-14-5. 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

Grugan, Patrick K. 2016. “The Mindfulness Practice of Clinicians: A Systematic Review.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Barron, James. 2017. “When a Brooklyn Graveyard Can’t Expand Outward, It Looks Within.” New York Times, June 22, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barabási 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Barabási 2005; Liao and Nori 2014).

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

Two authors: (Liao and Nori 2014)
Three authors: (Titus, Kieffer, and Christensen 2003)
4 or more authors: (Urbakh et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Health Promotion and Education
Abbreviation	Int. J. Health Promot. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1463-5240
ISSN (online)	2164-9545
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health