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

Warren WS. 2001. Nuclear magnetic resonance. Multidimensional symmetry in a three-dimensional world. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294: 1475–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stein S, Okal EA. 2005. Seismology: speed and size of the Sumatra earthquake. Nature 434: 581–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen J, Rashid T, Feng G. 2014. Esterase in imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta and S. richteri (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): activity, kinetics and variation. Scientific reports 4: 7112.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zalmout IS, Sanders WJ, Maclatchy LM, et al. 2010. New Oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys. Nature 466: 360–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dincer I, Rosen MA, Ahmadi P. 2017. Optimization of Energy Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Jørgensen U, Brodersen S (eds). 2016. Engineering Professionalism: Engineering Practices in Work and Education. SensePublishers: Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Suzuki Y, Suzuki R. 2014. Investigation of Massage by Using Tactile Score. In: Suzuki R (ed). Tactile Score: A Knowledge Media for Tactile Sense. Springer Japan: Tokyo, 27–9.

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 E. 2014. Fossils Reveal Oldest Known Vertebrate Live Birth. 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. 1978. Comments on the Solar Power Satellite Research, Development, and Demonstration Program Act of 1978. No. EMD-78-61. 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

Wheeler JA. 2012. The Scaling of High Harmonics with Mid-Infrared Driving Fields and a Method for the Spatial Isolation of Individual Subfemtosecond Pulses. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Pilon M. 2012. Fire Survivor and a Possible Olympian: A Horse Named Neville. New York Times: A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Warren, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Warren, 2001; Stein and Okal, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Stein and Okal, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zalmout et al., 2010)

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