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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Womens Health (JWH). 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

Simmons NB. Evolution. An Eocene big bang for bats. Science 2005;307(5709):527–528.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lukin MD, Imamoğlu A. Controlling photons using electromagnetically induced transparency. Nature 2001;413(6853):273–276.

A journal article with 3 authors

Exadaktylos F, Espín AM, Brañas-Garza P. Experimental subjects are not different. Sci Rep 2013;3:1213.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Grammatikopoulos P, Cassidy C, Singh V, et al. Coalescence-induced crystallisation wave in Pd nanoparticles. Sci Rep 2014;4:5779.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szeman I, O’Brien S. Popular Culture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2017.

An edited book

Väänänen J, Hirvonen Å, de Queiroz R, (eds). Logic, Language, Information, and Computation: 23rd International Workshop, WoLLIC 2016, Puebla, Mexico, August 16-19th, 2016. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Robbins CA. Case 15: Correction of Post-Infectious Partial Proximal Tibia Growth Arrest with Taylor Spatial Frame in a Child. In: Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery Case Atlas: Pediatric Deformity. (Rozbruch SR, Hamdy RC. eds) Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015; pp. 107–112.

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 Womens Health.

Blog post

Andrew E. Horses Have Similar Facial Expressions As Humans And Chimps. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/horses-have-similar-facial-expressions-humans-and-chimps/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Maritime Administration: Efforts To Improve Data on the Federal Ship Financing Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Medlej M. Assessing the Probability of Prototyping Success in Systems Acquisitions (APOPS). Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University: Washington, DC; 2017.

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

Feldstein MS, Halstead T, Gregory Mankiw N. A Conservative Case for Climate Action. New York Times 2017;A25.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Womens Health
ISSN (print)	1540-9996
ISSN (online)	1931-843X
Scope