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

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

1. Smaglik P. Lessons in career planning. Nature. 2002;418:3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fulton JE, Delany ME. Genetics. Poultry genetic resources--operation rescue needed. Science. 2003;300:1667–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Li X, Yang Y, Ashwell JD. TNF-RII and c-IAP1 mediate ubiquitination and degradation of TRAF2. Nature. 2002;416:345–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nicodeme E, Jeffrey KL, Schaefer U, Beinke S, Dewell S, Chung C-W, et al. Suppression of inflammation by a synthetic histone mimic. Nature. 2010;468:1119–23.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lebowitz ER, Omer H. Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Sidhu AS, Dhillon SK, editors. Advances in Biomedical Infrastructure 2013: Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Data Infrastructure (BDI 2013). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Treutiger B-M, Lindberg L. Prevention of Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Girls. In: Andershed A-K, editor. Girls at Risk: Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 57–78.

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 Urban Health.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Marijuana Contains “Alien DNA” From Outside Of Our Solar System, NASA Confirms [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/marijuana-contains-alien-dna-from-outside-of-our-solar-system-nasa-confirms/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Small Business: Proposed Amendments to the Small Business Innovation Research Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Jun. Report No.: RCED-89-173.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gornto JS. The impact of student leadership in classroom management on student achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2009.

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. Greenhouse L. The Roberts Court’s Reality Check. New York Times. 2015 Jun 25;A27.

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 Urban Health
Abbreviation	J. Urban Health
ISSN (print)	1099-3460
ISSN (online)	1468-2869
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health(social science)