How to format your references using the Farmeconomia. Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Farmeconomia. Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways. 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

Matthews KR. Controlling and coordinating development in vector-transmitted parasites. Science 2011; 331: 1149-53;

A journal article with 2 authors

Kruse E, Agol E. KOI-3278: a self-lensing binary star system. Science 2014; 344: 275-77;

A journal article with 3 authors

Tupler R, Perini G, Green MR. Expressing the human genome. Nature 2001; 409: 832-33;

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang R, Xu Y, Wen B, et al. Enhanced permeation of a hydrophobic fluid through particles with hydrophobic and hydrophilic patterned surfaces. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 5738;

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindahl D. Trump University Commercial Real Estate 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008

An edited book

Jeusfeld MA, Karlapalem K, eds. Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2015 Workshops AHA, CMS, EMoV, MoBID, MORE-BI, MReBA, QMMQ, and SCME, Stockholm, Sweden, October 19-22, 2015, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015

A chapter in an edited book

Charalambous P, Chrysanthou Y. Learning Crowd Steering Behaviors from Examples. In: Boulic R, Chrysanthou Y, Komura T, eds. Motion in Games: Third International Conference, MIG 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 14-16, 2010. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010:35-35.

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 Farmeconomia. Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways.

Blog post

Andrews R. Is Friday The 13th Really Unlucky? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/friday-13th-really-unlucky-day/. Published November 13, 2015. Accessed October 30, 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. Spectrum Management: Incentives, Opportunities, and Testing Needed to Enhance Spectrum Sharing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Gifford SC. (Re)making men, representing the Caribbean nation: Authorial individuation in works by Fred D’aguiar, Robert Antoni, and Marlon James. 2013;

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. Being Whatever It Takes to Win Election. New York Times 1992: 41;

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Farmeconomia. Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways
ISSN (print)	1721-6915
ISSN (online)	2240-256X
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