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. Sambles JR. Optics. Structured photons take it slow. Science. 2015;347:828.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Treseder KK, Holden SR. Ecology. Fungal carbon sequestration. Science. 2013;339:1528–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Alarousu E, AlSaggaf A, Jabbour GE. Online monitoring of printed electronics by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1562.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang X, Chen H, Yin H, Kim SS, Lin Tan S, Gosden RG. Fertility after intact ovary transplantation. Nature. 2002;415:385.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ness L. Securing Utility and Energy Infrastructures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

1. Nava S. Ventilazione meccanica non invasiva: Come, quando e perché. Fanfulla F, editor. Milano: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Salinelli E, Tomarelli F. Complessità dei sistemi dinamici non lineari: biforcazioni e caos. In: Tomarelli F, editor. Modelli Dinamici Discreti. Milano: Springer; 2014. p. 129–83.

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. Andrew E. Watch Doctors Remove A 19cm Worm From A Man’s Eyeball [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nsfl-doctors-remove-19-centimeter-long-eyeworm/

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. Key Controls NASA Employs to Guide Use and Management of Funded Space Act Agreements Are Generally Sufficient, but Some Could Be Strengthened and Clarified. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Nov. Report No.: GAO-12-230R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hintz L. Fighting for Us, Inside and Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2015.

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. Vecsey G. At All-Star Game, Politics and Passion Are Also in Play. New York Times. 2011 Jul 11;D2.

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