How to format your references using the Public Health Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Public Health Reviews. 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

1. Bernath PF. Laser chemistry. Water vapor gets excited. Science. 2002;297:943–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Benkovic SJ, Hammes-Schiffer S. A perspective on enzyme catalysis. Science. 2003;301:1196–202.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cacace F, de Petris G, Troiani A. Experimental detection of tetranitrogen. Science. 2002;295:480–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bergeron DE, Castleman AW Jr, Morisato T, Khanna SN. Formation of Al13I-: evidence for the superhalogen character of Al13. Science. 2004;304:84–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Leleux B, van Swaay H, Megally E. Private Equity 4.0. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Dunkelman O, Keliher L, editors. Selected Areas in Cryptography – SAC 2015: 22nd International Conference, Sackville, NB, Canada, August 12–14, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kluza E, Strijkers GJ, Nicolay K. Multifunctional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Probes. In: Schober O, Riemann B, editors. Molecular Imaging in Oncology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 151–90.

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 Public Health Reviews.

Blog post

1. Hale T. This Wind-Powered Ball Is The Godfather Of New Anti-Landmine Tech. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. No Child Left Behind Act: Education Actions May Help Improve Implementation and Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Apr. Report No.: GAO-07-738T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Burnias MP. A qualitative study of familial factors that contribute to a positive coming out process [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2014.

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. Kelly C. A Fresh Discovery, Three Decades in the Making. New York Times. 2012 Apr 8;A23B.

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	Public Health Reviews
Abbreviation	Public Health Rev.
ISSN (online)	2107-6952
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Community and Home Care