How to format your references using the Safety in Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Safety in 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	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. Murray M. Anthropology. Overkill and sustainable use. Science. 2003;299:1851–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Barnes MJ, Powrie F. Immunology. The gut’s Clostridium cocktail. Science. 2011;331:289–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schott D, Yanai I, Hunter CP. Natural RNA interference directs a heritable response to the environment. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7387.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lipp JS, Morono Y, Inagaki F, Hinrichs K-U. Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments. Nature. 2008;454:991–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Heuer A. Der perfekte Tipp. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

1. Last M, Szczepaniak PS, Volkovich Z, Kandel A, editors. Advances in Web Intelligence and Data Mining. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lourenço R, Lourenço N, Horta N. Kernel Validation Using CEC2009 Benchmarks. In: Lourenço N, Horta N, editors. AIDA-CMK: Multi-Algorithm Optimization Kernel Applied to Analog IC Sizing. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 43–9.

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 Safety in Health.

Blog post

1. Davis J. The Cerebellum May Be Doing More Than Previously Thought. 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. Motor Vehicle Safety: Comprehensive State Programs Offer Best Opportunity for Increasing Use of Safety Belts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Jan. Report No.: RCED-96-24.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Adler AD. Change in Automatic and Strategic Cognition: An Examination of Cognitive Therapy for Depression [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2012.

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 SR. How the Carolinas Fixed Their Blurred Lines. New York Times. 2014 Aug 24;SR6.

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	Safety in Health
Abbreviation	Saf. Health
ISSN (online)	2056-5917
Scope