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

Novick RP. 2008. Medicine. Combating impervious bugs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319: 910–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norskov JK, Christensen CH. 2006. Chemistry. Toward efficient hydrogen production at surfaces. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 1322–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu Y, Lee CC, Ribbe MW. 2011. Extending the carbon chain: hydrocarbon formation catalyzed by vanadium/molybdenum nitrogenases. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333: 753–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dong YH, Wang LH, Xu JL, Zhang HB, Zhang XF, Zhang LH. 2001. Quenching quorum-sensing-dependent bacterial infection by an N-acyl homoserine lactonase. Nature 411: 813–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kovalev VA. 2015. Solutions in Lidar Profiling of the Atmosphere. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Deville MO. 2012. Mathematical Modeling for Complex Fluids and Flows, Gatski TB (ed). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Mulder MB. 2010. The Unusual Women of Mpimbwe: Why Sex Differences in Humans are not Universal. In: Kappeler PM, Silk J (eds). Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 85–106.

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

Andrews R. 2017. Can You Solve The Murder Mystery Of The Phantom Fire? 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. 1999. Space Station: Russian Commitment and Cost Control Problems. No. NSIAD-99-175. 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

Roberson BN. 2013. Motivation towards learning perceived in Socratic seminar versus traditional lecture. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Greenhouse L. 2016. Chasing Abortion Rights Across the State Line. New York Times: SR5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Novick, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Norskov and Christensen, 2006; Novick, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Norskov and Christensen, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Dong et al., 2001)

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