How to format your references using the Health Policy and Planning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Health Policy and Planning. 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

Hartung T. 2009. Toxicology for the twenty-first century. Nature 460: 208–12.

A journal article with 2 authors

Manoli DS, Baker BS. 2004. Median bundle neurons coordinate behaviours during Drosophila male courtship. Nature 430: 564–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bridgham JT, Carroll SM, Thornton JW. 2006. Evolution of hormone-receptor complexity by molecular exploitation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 97–101.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fu D, Uauy C, Distelfeld A, et al. 2009. A kinase-START gene confers temperature-dependent resistance to wheat stripe rust. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323: 1357–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davies J. 2010. Implementing SSL/TLS Using Cryptography and PKI. Wiley Publishing, Inc.: Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Jazar RN, Dai L (eds). 2014. Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications 2. Springer: New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Lai Y-C, Tél T. 2011. Noise and Transient Chaos. In: Tél T (ed). Transient Chaos: Complex Dynamics on Finite Time Scales. Springer: New York, NY, 107–43.

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 Policy and Planning.

Blog post

Andrew D. 2016. Forget About The Olympics, It’s The Paralympics Where The True Super-Humans Perform. IFLScience.

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. 1988. NATO-Warsaw Pact: U.S. and Soviet Perspectives of the Conventional Force Balance. No. NSIAD-89-23A. 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

Valenzuela BD. 2013. Thirty-Year-Old Mulberry Field. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

(nyt) SK. 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: More Blamed In Air Disaster. New York Times: A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hartung, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Manoli and Baker, 2004; Hartung, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Manoli and Baker, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Fu et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Health Policy and Planning
Abbreviation	Health Policy Plan.
ISSN (print)	0268-1080
ISSN (online)	1460-2237
Scope	Health Policy