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:

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

Paulson T. Epidemiology: A mortal foe. Nature 2013;502:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hedwig B, Poulet JFA. Complex auditory behaviour emerges from simple reactive steering. Nature 2004;430:781–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moser DE, Flowers RM, Hart RJ. Birth of the Kaapvaal tectosphere 3.08 billion years ago. Science 2001;291:465–8.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu W, Su J, Jiang J, et al. Two mixed-NH3/amine platinum (II) anticancer complexes featuring a dichloroacetate moiety in the leaving group. Sci Rep 2013;3:2464.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ledolter J. Data Mining and Business Analytics with R. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Bebis G, Boyle R, Parvin B, et al., editors. Advances in Visual Computing: 5th International Symposium, ISVC 2009, Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 30 - December 2, 2009, Proceedings, Part I. vol. 5875. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Davis TE, Tarcza EV, Munson MS. The Psychological Impact of Hurricanes and Storms on Adults. In: Cherry KE, editor. Lifespan Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Coping with Katrina, Rita, and Other Storms, New York, NY: Springer US; 2009, p. 97–112.

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

Andrew D. The Future Of Brain And Machine Is Intertwined, And It’s Already Here. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-future-of-brain-and-machine-is-intertwined-and-its-already-here/. 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

Government Accountability Office. Commercial Launch Vehicles: NASA Taking Measures to Manage Delays and Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Webber NT. Peptide ion conformation studies and the 157 nm photofragmentation of arginine containing dipeptides. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2012.

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

Wihbey J, Beaudet M. Financial Disclosure, Wrapped in Secrecy. New York Times 2016:A23.

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 Education Research
Abbreviation	Health Educ. Res.
ISSN (print)	0268-1153
ISSN (online)	1465-3648
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Education