How to format your references using the Prevention Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Prevention Science. 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

Abbott, A. (2003). Axeing of website article sparks row at Max Planck. Nature, 422(6931), 460.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brett, M. J., & Hawkeye, M. M. (2008). Materials science. New materials at a glance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5867), 1192–1193.

A journal article with 3 authors

Christian, W., Esquembre, F., & Barbato, L. (2011). SPORE series winner. Open source physics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6059), 1077–1078.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fortenberry, N. L., Sullivan, J. F., Jordan, P. N., & Knight, D. W. (2007). Retention. Engineering education research aids instruction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5842), 1175–1176.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blundell, A., Harrison, R., & Turney, B. (2010). The Essential Guide to Becoming a Doctor. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Bekkevold, J. I., & Till, G. (Eds.). (2016). International Order at Sea: How it is challenged. How it is maintained. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Z., & Li, X. (2016). Quantification of Spike-LFP Synchronization. In X. Li (Ed.), Signal Processing in Neuroscience (pp. 57–75). Singapore: Springer.

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 Prevention Science.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, October 17). Mountain Range’s Collapse May Have Supercharged Evolution. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/mountain-ranges-collapse-supercharged-evolution/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2016). Tribal Internet Access: Increased Federal Coordination and Performance Measurement Needed (No. GAO-16-504T). 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

Norris, C. (2014). What is Lost Along the Way (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

Barron, J. (2017, January 1). Stepping Off Fifth Ave., Into a 1920s Paris Apartment. New York Times, p. A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2003; Brett and Hawkeye 2008).

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

Two authors: (Brett and Hawkeye 2008)
Three or more authors: (Fortenberry et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Prevention Science
Abbreviation	Prev. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1389-4986
ISSN (online)	1573-6695
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health