How to format your references using the Health Economics Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Health Economics Review. 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. Fairley WB. Outrageous events: don’t count them out. Science. 2000;290:715.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Scher HD, Martin EE. Timing and climatic consequences of the opening of Drake Passage. Science. 2006;312:428–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kaul M, Garden GA, Lipton SA. Pathways to neuronal injury and apoptosis in HIV-associated dementia. Nature. 2001;410:988–94.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Phillips RJ, Davis BJ, Tanaka KL, Byrne S, Mellon MT, Putzig NE, et al. Massive CO₂ ice deposits sequestered in the south polar layered deposits of Mars. Science. 2011;332:838–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Rémy J-G, Letamendia C. Home Area Networks and IPTV. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Pardalos PM, Georgiev PG, Papajorgji P, Neugaard B, editors. Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fiori PL, Rappelli P, Dessì D, Hirt R, Gould S, Tachezy J, et al. Trichomonas. In: Walochnik J, Duchêne M, editors. Molecular Parasitology: Protozoan Parasites and their Molecules. Vienna: Springer; 2016. p. 115–55.

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 Review.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Dogs Evolved To Eat Human Scraps As We Started Farming [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dogs-evolved-to-eat-human-scraps-as-we-started-farming/

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. Battlefield Automation: Status of the Army Command and Control System Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Aug. Report No.: NSIAD-86-184FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nelson PT. Sound as a gateway to a personal relationship with nature [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2008.

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. Billard M. Scouting Report. New York Times. 2010 Oct 28;E6.

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 Economics Review
Abbreviation	Health Econ. Rev.
ISSN (online)	2191-1991
Scope