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

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

Turner MS (2012) History: Aspen physics turns 50. Nature 486:315–317

A journal article with 2 authors

Peñuelas J, Filella I (2001) Phenology. Responses to a warming world. Science 294:793–795

A journal article with 3 authors

Montrose K, Yang Y, Krissansen GW (2014) The tetrapeptide core of the carrier peptide Xentry is cell-penetrating: novel activatable forms of Xentry. Sci Rep 4:4900

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Abram NJ, Gagan MK, Liu Z, et al (2007) Seasonal characteristics of the Indian Ocean Dipole during the Holocene epoch. Nature 445:299–302

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Casadella V, Liu Z, Uzunidis D (2015) Innovation Capabilities and Economic Development in Open Economies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Potts K (2007) Textpattern Solutions: PHP-Based Content Management Made Easy. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Islam T, Yamaguchi Y (2009) Some Computational Predictions on the Possibilities of Three-Dimensional Properties of Grid Cells in Entorhinal Cortex. In: Leung CS, Lee M, Chan JH (eds) Neural Information Processing: 16th International Conference, ICONIP 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, December 1-5, 2009, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 26–33

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 Public Health.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Journeying to the Earth’s core. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/journeying-earth’s-core/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2011) Additional Cost Transparency and Design Criteria Needed for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kasun KK (2010) Economic effectiveness of physician organizational models in a California integrated healthcare system. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Kirkpatrick DD (2017) Dubious Past for ‘Professor’ Who Enticed Trump Allies. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turner 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Peñuelas and Filella 2001; Turner 2012).

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

Two authors: (Peñuelas and Filella 2001)
Three or more authors: (Abram et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Public Health
Abbreviation	Z. Gesundh. Wiss.
ISSN (print)	2198-1833
ISSN (online)	1613-2238
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health