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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Health Policy and Technology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Macilwain C. Inadequate optics “threat to US laser facility.” Nature 2000;403:120.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Koch C, Reid RC. Neuroscience: Observatories of the mind. Nature 2012;483:397–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bradley J, Reuter D, Frings S. Facilitation of calmodulin-mediated odor adaptation by cAMP-gated channel subunits. Science 2001;294:2176–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Di Rienzo C, Jacchetti E, Cardarelli F, Bizzarri R, Beltram F, Cecchini M. Unveiling LOX-1 receptor interplay with nanotopography: mechanotransduction and atherosclerosis onset. Sci Rep 2013;3:1141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hitz B, Ewing JJ, Hecht J. Introduction to Laser Technology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Wong Kee Song LM, Gorospe EC, Baron TH, editors. GI Endoscopic Emergencies. 1st ed. 2016. New York, NY: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bauer AJ, Francis GL. Molecular Aspects of Thyroid Cancer in Children. In: Wartofsky L, Van Nostrand D, editors. Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management, New York, NY: Springer; 2016, p. 31–41.

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 Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Second Detection Heralds The Era Of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/second-detection-heralds-the-era-of-gravitational-wave-astronomy/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Vehicle Cybersecurity: DOT and Industry Have Efforts Under Way, but DOT Needs to Define Its Role in Responding to a Real-world Attack. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wahid R. Quality of life of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Hollander S. Unspectacular, but Advancing. New York Times 2000:D4.

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 Policy and Technology
Abbreviation	Health Policy Technol.
ISSN (print)	2211-8837
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Health Policy