How to format your references using the Journal of Health and Social Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 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

Fiorillo, Christopher D. 2013. “Two Dimensions of Value: Dopamine Neurons Represent Reward but Not Aversiveness.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341(6145):546–49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aychek, Tegest, and Steffen Jung. 2014. “Immunology. The Axis of Tolerance.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343(6178):1439–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Larson, Kristine M., Paul Bodin, and Joan Gomberg. 2003. “Using 1-Hz GPS Data to Measure Deformations Caused by the Denali Fault Earthquake.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300(5624):1421–24.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wootton, John C., Xiaorong Feng, Michael T. Ferdig, Roland A. Cooper, Jianbing Mu, Dror I. Baruch, Alan J. Magill, and Xin-Zhuan Su. 2002. “Genetic Diversity and Chloroquine Selective Sweeps in Plasmodium Falciparum.” Nature 418(6895):320–23.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, Valerie. 2012. Toni Morrison. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Catania, Barbara, Tania Cerquitelli, Silvia Chiusano, Giovanna Guerrini, Mirko Kämpf, Alfons Kemper, Boris Novikov, Themis Palpanas, Jaroslav Pokorný, and Athena Vakali, eds. 2014. New Trends in Databases and Information Systems: 17th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems. Vol. 241. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wight, Colin. 2013. “Morphogenesis, Continuity and Change in the International Political System.” Pp. 85–101 in Social Morphogenesis, edited by M. S. Archer. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Health and Social Behavior.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “Could This New Photo Show The Last Known Wild Jaguar In The US?” IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/could-this-new-photo-show-the-last-known-wild-jaguar-in-the-us/.

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. 1995. NASA Budgets: Gap Between Funding Requirements and Projected Budgets Has Been Reopened. NSIAD-95-155BR. 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

Eisenberg, David A. 2012. “Effectiveness of an Eel Curriculum on Student Achievement for the California Earth Science Standard on Ocean Currents A Comparative Analysis.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Lee, Linda. 2014. “Greasing a Squeaky Wheel.” New York Times, March 13, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fiorillo 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Aychek and Jung 2014; Fiorillo 2013).

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

Two authors: (Aychek and Jung 2014)
Three authors: (Larson, Bodin, and Gomberg 2003)
4 or more authors: (Wootton et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Abbreviation	J. Health Soc. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0022-1465
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Social Psychology