How to format your references using the Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health citation style

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

[1]

Kubin L. Materials science. Collective defect behavior under stress. Science 2006;312:864–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Verheyden JM, Sun X. An Fgf/Gremlin inhibitory feedback loop triggers termination of limb bud outgrowth. Nature 2008;454:638–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pollitz FF, Wicks C, Thatcher W. Mantle flow beneath a continental strike-slip fault: postseismic deformation after the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake. Science 2001;293:1814–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aleman A, Rios M, Juarez M, Lee D, Chen A, Eivers E. Mad linker phosphorylations control the intensity and range of the BMP-activity gradient in developing Drosophila tissues. Sci Rep 2014;4:6927.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lev B, Gu F. The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Hart JG, editor. Who One Is: Existenz and Transcendental Phenomenology. vol. 190. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lipton AM, Marshall CD. Making the Most of the Doctor’s Visit. In: Marshall CD, editor. The Common Sense Guide to Dementia For Clinicians and Caregivers, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 43–55.

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 Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. How Borneo’s Unique Mountain Wildlife Evolved. IFLScience 2015.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Information Technology: Opportunities Exist to Improve Management of DOD’s Electronic Health Record Initiative. 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

[1]

Le CT. Academic performance of college students as related to depression from stress. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Rothenberg B. Kerber Encounters a Pliskova Test, but Not the Usual One. New York Times 2017:B13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Abbreviation	J. Epidemiol. Glob. Health
ISSN (print)	2210-6006
Scope	Epidemiology