How to format your references using the Health Education Research citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Bohannon J. Happy 300th Birthday, Linnaeus. Science 2007;318:752.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Boehr DD, Wright PE. Biochemistry. How do proteins interact? Science 2008;320:1429–30.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Bergmann DC, Lukowitz W, Somerville CR. Stomatal development and pattern controlled by a MAPKK kinase. Science 2004;304:1494–7.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Baron MK, Boeckers TM, Vaida B, et al. An architectural framework that may lie at the core of the postsynaptic density. Science 2006;311:531–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Campbell CA, Collins M. The One-Page Project Manager for Execution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.
An edited book
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Stützle T, editor. Learning and Intelligent Optimization: Third International Conference, LION 3, Trento, Italy, January 14-18, 2009. Selected Papers. vol. 5851. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.
A chapter in an edited book
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Kamaloni SM. What Are You Doing Here? The Politics of Race and Belonging at the Airport. In: Randell-Moon H, Tippet R, editors. Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016, p. 61–78.

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 Education Research.

Blog post
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Andrew D. Is Cannabis Really Getting Stronger? Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/is-cannabis-really-getting-stronger/. AccessedOctober 30, 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
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Government Accountability Office. Severe Storms Research Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Hilmey DG. Synthesis and Study of Heteroatomic Spirocyclic Scaffolds. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2006.

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
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Gorman J. Judge Allows Departure of 7 Chimps to England. New York Times 2016:A12.

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 titleHealth Education Research
AbbreviationHealth Educ. Res.
ISSN (print)0268-1153
ISSN (online)1465-3648
ScopePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Education

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