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

Pincus, P. (2000). PHASE TRANSITIONS: Y’s and Ends. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5495), 1307–1308.

A journal article with 2 authors

McCann, K. L., & Baserga, S. J. (2013). Genetics. Mysterious ribosomopathies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6148), 849–850.

A journal article with 3 authors

Farkas, I., Helbing, D., & Vicsek, T. (2002). Mexican waves in an excitable medium. Nature, 419(6903), 131–132.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gessler, D., Dye, C., Farmer, P., Murray, M., Navin, T., Reves, R., et al. (2006). Public health. A National Tuberculosis Archive. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5765), 1245–1246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alrifai, T. (2015). Islamic Finance and the New Financial System. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Shin, J. C., Postiglione, G. A., & Huang, F. (Eds.). (2015). Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia: Strategy, Quality, and Challenges (Vol. 2). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Banerjee, S., & Moses, M. E. (2009). A Hybrid Agent Based and Differential Equation Model of Body Size Effects on Pathogen Replication and Immune System Response. In P. S. Andrews, J. Timmis, N. D. L. Owens, U. Aickelin, E. Hart, A. Hone, & A. M. Tyrrell (Eds.), Artificial Immune Systems: 8th International Conference, ICARIS 2009, York, UK, August 9-12, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 14–18). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Davis, J. (2016, December 8). Spiders Colonized A Remote Pacific Island By Flying There. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spiders-colonized-a-remote-pacific-island-by-flying-there/. 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. (2007). Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2007 Expenditure Plan (No. GAO-07-247). 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

Fletcher, B. (2017). Tropes of Dis/Ableism as Flexible Stigma: Examining Brenda Connors’ 2008 Report as an Instance of Dis/Ableist Polemical Rhetoric (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, May 21). Off to Italy to Study Art: An Ex-Inmate’s Journey. New York Times, p. A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pincus 2000).
This sentence cites two references (McCann and Baserga 2013; Pincus 2000).

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

Two authors: (McCann and Baserga 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gessler et al. 2006)

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