How to format your references using the Health Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Health Economics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Derry LA. 2006. Atmospheric science. Fungi, weathering, and the emergence of animals. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311(5766): 1386–1387.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buschman TJ, Miller EK. 2007. Top-down versus bottom-up control of attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315(5820): 1860–1862.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanner C, Manca C, Leutwyler S. 2003. Probing the threshold to H atom transfer along a hydrogen-bonded ammonia wire. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302(5651): 1736–1739.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Valenzuela CD, Carriedo GA, Valenzuela ML, Zúñiga L, O’Dwyer C. 2013. Solid state pathways to complex shape evolution and tunable porosity during metallic crystal growth. Scientific Reports 3: 2642.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murdoch I, Turpin S, Johnston B, MacLullich A, Losman E. 2014. Geriatric Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Zschocke J, Baumgartner M, Morava E, Patterson M, Rahman S, Peters V eds. 2015. JIMD Reports, Volume 24. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hayakawa H. 2016. Bounded Rationality, Social and Cultural Norms, and Interdependence via Reference Groups, In Behavioral Interactions, Markets, and Economic Dynamics: Topics in Behavioral Economics, Ikeda S, Kato HK, Ohtake F, Tsutsui Y (eds). Springer Japan: Tokyo; 101–139.

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 Economics.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Astronomers Measure Exoplanet’s Day For The First Time. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-measure-exoplanet’s-day-first-time/ [Accessed 30 October 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. 1977. The Impact of Federal Commodity Donations on the School Lunch Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McGowan HC. 2008. The Military Experience: Perceptions from Senior Military Officers’ Wives. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University: Minneapolis, MN.

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

Hubbard B. 2017. Bahrain Executes 3 Shiites Convicted in Deadly Bomb Attack on the Police. New York Times: A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Derry, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Derry, 2006; Buschman and Miller, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Buschman and Miller, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Valenzuela et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Health Economics
Abbreviation	Health Econ.
ISSN (online)	1099-1050
Scope	Health Policy

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