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. Macilwain C. World view: Leaders wanted. Nature. 2010;466:919.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Anderson DL, King SD. Geology. Driving the Earth machine? Science. 2014;346:1184–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hernández AR, Klein AM, Kirschner MW. Kinetic responses of β-catenin specify the sites of Wnt control. Science. 2012;338:1337–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hatfield SD, Shcherbata HR, Fischer KA, Nakahara K, Carthew RW, Ruohola-Baker H. Stem cell division is regulated by the microRNA pathway. Nature. 2005;435:974–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Matthews C. Engineers’ Data Book. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Nóbrega CEL, Brum NCL, editors. Desiccant-Assisted Cooling: Fundamentals and Applications. London: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kullaa J. Vibration-Based Structural Health Monitoring Under Variable Environmental or Operational Conditions. In: Deraemaeker A, Worden K, editors. New Trends in Vibration Based Structural Health Monitoring. Vienna: Springer; 2011. p. 107–81.

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. Andrews R. Mental Health Support Will Disappear Under The GOP Healthcare Act [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mental-health-support-disappear-under-gop-healthcare-act/

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. Telecommunications: Actions Needed for Better Management of Public Safety Spectrum. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Jul. Report No.: RCED-88-173.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Carlson DL. BOUND/(bang) [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Kolomatsky M. Where It’s Good to Have Four Legs. New York Times. 2017 Sep 21;RE2.

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

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