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As of April 2024, the Journal of Health Monitoring uses the reference style outlined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), as adapted by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for its databases, known as Vancouver or NLM Style.
The Journal of Health Monitoring uses consecutive Arabic numerals for referencing within the text. Reference numbers are provided in square brackets such as in the following example: ‘Caries is one of the most common diseases in childhood and adolescence [1].’ Full references are specified in numerical order in the ‘References’ section. If a reference has seven or more authors or editors, only the first six should be stated, followed by ‘et al.’ Journal titles should be abbreviated according to those found in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) databases.
All available works can be cited in the reference list including accepted manuscripts. Accepted but not yet published manuscripts can be cited as ‘Forthcoming’ followed by the year of submission. When citing preprints, it should be clearly recognizable that it is a preprint, and a permanent identifier such as a DOI must be included in the reference. Unavailable and unpublished work, including manuscripts that have been submitted but not yet accepted, should not be cited. If citation of a submitted but not yet accepted paper is mandatory, it is not included as a reference in the bibliography, but is cited in full in brackets in the text according to the following example: (unpublished results: Author A, Author B, Author C, Author D, Author E, Author F, et al. Title of paper. Submitted to Journal XY). Artificial intelligence cannot be cited as an author.
For use with the reference management software package EndNote, the output style ‘JHealthMonit’ can be downloaded via the link below. For other reference management programmes, we recommend the reference style NLM with adaptations to the specifications described here.
Example formats are listed below. Additional examples can be found in the sample references provided by the NLM (see Related Links). Please make sure to use the format DD.MM.YYYY for dates.
Hertig E, Hunger I, Kaspar-Ott I, Matzarakis A, Niemann H, Schulte-Droesch L, et al. Climate change and public health in Germany – An introduction to the German status report on climate change and health 2023. J Health Monit. 2023;8(S3):6-32. doi: 10.25646/11400.
Tijhuis MJ, van der Wilk E, Dankova S, Fehr A, Ghirini S, Gissler M, et al. Towards a sustainable set of European Core Health Indicators (ECHI). J Health Monit. Forthcoming 2024.
Garcia-Saiso S, Marti M, Pesce K, Luciani S, Mujica O, Hennis A, et al. Artificial Intelligence as a potential catalyst to a more equitable cancer care. JMIR Preprints [Preprint]. 2024;10/02/2024:57276 [cited 12.02.2024]. Available from: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/57276. doi: 10.2196/preprints.57276.
Walters SJ, Campbell MJ, Machin D. Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the Health Sciences. 5th ed. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley-Blackwell; 2021.
Abdalla SM, Abdool Karim SS, Abdool Karim Q, Acquin CS, Ali MK, Azzopardi P, et al. Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health. 7th ed. Detels R, Abdool Karim Q, Baum F, Li L, Leyland AH, editors. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2021.
Robert Koch Institute, editor. Gesundheit in Deutschland. Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes. Gemeinsam getragen von RKI und Destatis. Berlin: RKI; 2015. German.
Fisher M, Townsend B, Harris P, Schram A, Baum F. Determinants of health: overview. In: Detels R, Abdool Karim Q, Baum F, Li L, Leyland AH, editors. Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health. 7th ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2021. p. 83-92.
Welche Faktoren beeinflussen die Gesundheit? In: Robert Koch Institute, editor. Gesundheit in Deutschland. Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes. Gemeinsam getragen von RKI und Destatis. Berlin: RKI; 2015. p. 147-236. German.
World Health Organization. Promoting Health in All Policies and intersectoral action capacities. 2023 [cited 01.01.2024]. Available from: https://www.who.int/activities/promoting-health-in-all-policies-and-intersectoral-action-capacities.
Michalski N, Reis M, Tetzlaff F, Nowossadeck E, Hoebel J. German Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation (GISD). 26.05.2023 [cited 15.06.2023]. Available from: https://zenodo.org/record/6840304. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7973846.
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
https://www.icmje.org/
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Catalog – Journals referenced in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Databases
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals
National Library of Medicine (NLM) – Samples of Formatted References
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
Date: 14.03.2024
