How to format your references using the British Journal of Health Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Health Psychology. 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

Hawks, J. (2001). The Y chromosome and the replacement hypothesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5530), 567.

A journal article with 2 authors

Narbonne, P., & Roy, R. (2009). Caenorhabditis elegans dauers need LKB1/AMPK to ration lipid reserves and ensure long-term survival. Nature, 457(7226), 210–214.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vogelstein, B., Alberts, B., & Shine, K. (2002). Genetics. Please don’t call it cloning! Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5558), 1237.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Raghavan, S., Manzanillo, P., Chan, K., Dovey, C., & Cox, J. S. (2008). Secreted transcription factor controls Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence. Nature, 454(7205), 717–721.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tran, J. (2010). The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Robert-McComb, J. J., Norman, R., & Zumwalt, M. (Eds.). (2008). The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout The Lifespan. Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Mulkidjanian, A. Y. (2011). Abiotic Photosynthesis. In M. Gargaud, R. Amils, J. C. Quintanilla, H. J. (jim) Cleaves, W. M. Irvine, D. L. Pinti, & M. Viso (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (pp. 1–3). 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 British Journal of Health Psychology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, March 15). What Do Dogs Dream About? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-do-dogs-dream-about/

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. (2012). HUD Information Technology: More Work Remains to Implement Necessary Management Controls (GAO-12-580T). 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

Johnson, E. A. (2008). Factors associated with post-stroke depressive symptoms and quality of life [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.

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

Kelly, M. (1993, January 2). Clinton, Off and Running, Sees the Sun Rise on ’93. New York Times, 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hawks, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hawks, 2001; Narbonne & Roy, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Narbonne & Roy, 2009)
Three authors: (Vogelstein et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Raghavan et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Health Psychology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Health Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1359-107X
ISSN (online)	2044-8287
Scope	General Medicine Applied Psychology