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

Blow N. Functional Neuroscience: How to get ahead in imaging. Nature 2009;458:925–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawasaki H, Taira K. Hes1 is a target of microRNA-23 during retinoic-acid-induced neuronal differentiation of NT2 cells. Nature 2003;423:838–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

Touboul M, Puchtel IS, Walker RJ. 182W evidence for long-term preservation of early mantle differentiation products. Science 2012;335:1065–9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Groombridge JJ, Jones CG, Bruford MW, et al. “Ghost” alleles of the Mauritius kestrel. Nature 2000;403:616.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Röpke G. Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Xie J, Chen Z, Douglas CC, et al., editors. High Performance Computing and Applications: Third International Conference, HPCA 2015, Shanghai, China, July 26-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 9576. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

de Melo Bezerra J, Santos Diniz L, da Silva Montalvão V, et al. Motivating Online Teams: An Investigation on Task Significance, Coordination and Incentive Mechanisms. In: Monfort V, Krempels K-H, Majchrzak TA, et al., editors. Web Information Systems and Technologies: 11th International Conference, WEBIST 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, May 20–22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 93–108.

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

Andrews R. Morocco Will Have 24/7 Solar Power By 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/morocco-will-have-247-solar-power-2017/. 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. Airport Improvement Program: Analysis of Discretionary Spending for Fiscal Years 1996-98. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tambornini TF. Supportive and subsidized housing solutions for Sonoma County: A grant project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

LISA W. FODERARO; Reporting for this article was contributed by Ford Fessenden, as well as by Kathleen McGrory in Westchester, Akhtar F, et al. That Sound You Hear? The Market Coming Down to Earth. New York Times 2006:14CN5.

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

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