How to format your references using the Health and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Health and Technology. 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

1. El-Awady N. Science journalism: The Arab boom. Nature. 2009;459:1057.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lv X, Weng J. Ternary composite of hemin, gold nanoparticles and graphene for highly efficient decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3285.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Jan CH, Williams CC, Weissman JS. LOCAL TRANSLATION. Response to Comment on “Principles of ER cotranslational translocation revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling.” Science. 2015;348:1217.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Behrens MR, Mutlu N, Chakraborty S, Dumitru R, Jiang WZ, Lavallee BJ, et al. Dicamba resistance: enlarging and preserving biotechnology-based weed management strategies. Science. 2007;316:1185–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ekenna O. Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice: Obtaining a good history from the patient remains the cornerstone of an accurate clinical diagnosis: Lessons learned in many years of clinical practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Klusch M, Rovatsos M, Payne TR, editors. Cooperative Information Agents X: 10th International Workshop, CIA 2006 Edinburgh, UK, September 11-13, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gruba P, Cárdenas-Claros MS, Suvorov R, Rick K. Macro-Level Evaluation. In: Cárdenas-Claros MS, Suvorov R, Rick K, editors. Blended Language Program Evaluation. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 85–104.

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 Health and Technology.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Large Study Concludes Homeopathy Does Not Effectively Treat Any Health Condition. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Computer Operations: FAA Needs to Implement an Effective Capacity Management Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Nov. Report No.: IMTEC-92-2.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wheatley BA. Leadership styles of healthcare executives: Comparisons of transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant styles [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2010.

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

1. Cooper BM. The Tailor of 125th Street. New York Times. 2017 Jun 3;ST1.

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	Health and Technology
Abbreviation	Health Technol. (Berl.)
ISSN (print)	2190-7188
ISSN (online)	2190-7196
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology