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

Lee, V. M. (2001). Biomedicine. Tauists and beta-aptists united--well almost! Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5534), 1446–1447.

A journal article with 2 authors

Prejean, S. G., & Haney, M. M. (2014). Geophysics. Shaking up volcanoes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6192), 39.

A journal article with 3 authors

Messenger, S., Keller, L. P., & Lauretta, D. S. (2005). Supernova olivine from cometary dust. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5735), 737–741.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ligi, M., Bonatti, E., Cipriani, A., & Ottolini, L. (2005). Water-rich basalts at mid-ocean-ridge cold spots. Nature, 434(7029), 66–69.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Freeman, R. L. (2005). Telecommunication System Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Logozzo, F., & Fähndrich, M. (Eds.). (2013). Static Analysis: 20th International Symposium, SAS 2013, Seattle, WA, USA, June 20-22, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 7935). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jin, C., Liu, J., & Guo, J. (2015). A Hybrid Model Based on Mutual Information and Support Vector Machine for Automatic Image Annotation. In R. Silhavy, R. Senkerik, Z. K. Oplatkova, Z. Prokopova, & P. Silhavy (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Perspectives and Applications: Proceedings of the 4th Computer Science On-line Conference 2015 (CSOC2015), Vol 1: Artificial Intelligence Perspectives and Applications (pp. 29–38). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 4). Stopping Mangrove Deforestation In Indonesia Could Help Slow Climate Change. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1991). Earth Observing System: Information on NASA’s Selection of Data Centers (No. IMTEC-91-67). 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

Kerr, A. B. (2012). Exploring relationship awareness in organizational change using the Strength Deployment Inventory (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Stewart, J. B. (2017, January 5). 2016’s Top Investors Offer Their Insights Into the Year Ahead. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lee 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lee 2001; Prejean and Haney 2014).

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

Two authors: (Prejean and Haney 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ligi et al. 2005)

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