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

Allen, R. M. (2012). Geophysics. Transforming earthquake detection? Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6066), 297–298.

A journal article with 2 authors

Torquato, S., & Jiao, Y. (2009). Dense packings of the Platonic and Archimedean solids. Nature, 460(7257), 876–879.

A journal article with 3 authors

Asaadi, N., Ribe, N. M., & Sobouti, F. (2011). Inferring nonlinear mantle rheology from the shape of the Hawaiian swell. Nature, 473(7348), 501–504.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ranson, H., Claudianos, C., Ortelli, F., Abgrall, C., Hemingway, J., Sharakhova, M. V., Unger, M. F., Collins, F. H., & Feyereisen, R. (2002). Evolution of supergene families associated with insecticide resistance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5591), 179–181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Renaud, B., Kim, K.-H., & Cho, M. (2016). Dynamics of Housing in East Asia. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Saitô, H. (2006). Solid State NMR Spectroscopy for Biopolymers: Principles and Applications (I. Ando & A. Naito, Eds.). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Gusak, D., Kukush, A., Kulik, A., Mishura, Y., & Pilipenko, A. (2010). Stochastic processes with independent increments. Wiener and Poisson processes. Poisson point measures. In A. Kukush, A. Kulik, Y. Mishura, & A. Pilipenko (Eds.), Theory of Stochastic Processes: With Applications to Financial Mathematics and Risk Theory (pp. 43–58). 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. (2016, October 24). Spider Carries A Mouse Up A Refrigerator Like It’s No Big Deal. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spider-carries-a-mouse-up-a-refrigerator-like-its-no-big-deal/

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. (2015). Federal Research: DOE Is Addressing Invention Disclosure and Other Challenges but Needs a Plan to Guide Data Management Improvements (GAO-15-212). 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

Bearden, B. A. (2008). Followership as perceived by leaders in a multidisciplinary healthcare organization [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Viera, M. (2010, August 17). Giants’ Manning Needs 12 Stitches After a Collision. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Allen, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Allen, 2012; Torquato & Jiao, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Torquato & Jiao, 2009)
Three authors: (Asaadi et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Ranson et al., 2002)

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