How to format your references using the Advances in Health Sciences Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Health Sciences Education. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Pendry, J. B. (2008). Time reversal and negative refraction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5898), 71–73.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fu, H., & Cohen, R. E. (2000). Polarization rotation mechanism for ultrahigh electromechanical response in single-crystal piezoelectrics. Nature, 403(6767), 281–283.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mora, C., Rollo, A., & Tittensor, D. P. (2013). Comment on “Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct?” Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6143), 237.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ohlrogge, J., Allen, D., Berguson, B., Dellapenna, D., Shachar-Hill, Y., & Stymne, S. (2009). Energy. Driving on biomass. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5930), 1019–1020.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, Y., Wen, F., & Xiao, M. (2013). Quantum Control of Multi-Wave Mixing. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Shockley, E., Neal, T. M. S., PytlikZillig, L. M., & Bornstein, B. H. (Eds.). (2016). Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Trust: Towards Theoretical and Methodological Integration (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Weyandt, L. L., & DuPaul, G. J. (2013). Assessment of ADHD. In G. J. DuPaul (Ed.), College Students with ADHD: Current Issues and Future Directions (pp. 37–60). New York, NY: 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 Advances in Health Sciences Education.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, April 9). Parasite Turns Plant Into Flowerless Zombies. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/parasite-turns-plant-flowerless-zombies/. 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. (1984). The NASA Fiscal Year 1985 Budget Requests That Support DOD Programs (No. NSIAD-84-120). 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

Gomes, S. (2010). The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act and the effects of deinstitutionalization on the mentally ill (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

Pilon, M. (2012, November 8). Slugger’s Penalty Includes a Walk Through History. New York Times, p. B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pendry 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Fu and Cohen 2000; Pendry 2008).

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

Two authors: (Fu and Cohen 2000)
Three or more authors: (Ohlrogge et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Health Sciences Education
Abbreviation	Adv. Health Sci. Educ. Theory Pract.
ISSN (print)	1382-4996
ISSN (online)	1573-1677
Scope	General Medicine Education