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]

Meyer A. George C. Williams (1926-2010). Nature 2010;467:790.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Guessoum N, Osama A. Institutions: Revive universities of the Muslim world. Nature 2015;526:634–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

McDonald JJ, Teder-Sälejärvi WA, Ward LM. Multisensory integration and crossmodal attention effects in the human brain. Science 2001;292:1791.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Goriely A, McVean GAT, Röjmyr M, Ingemarsson B, Wilkie AOM. Evidence for selective advantage of pathogenic FGFR2 mutations in the male germ line. Science 2003;301:643–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Flood BG. Wealth Exposed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Loewy EH. Textbook of Healthcare Ethics. 2nd Edition. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lyra J, Medrado B. Pregnancy, Marriage, and Fatherhood in Adolescents: A Critical Review of the Literature. In: Cherry AL, Dillon ME, editors. International Handbook of Adolescent Pregnancy: Medical, Psychosocial, and Public Health Responses, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014, p. 103–28.

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 E. Loss of Antarctic Ice Causing Gravity Dips. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/loss-antarctic-ice-causing-gravity-dips-0/ (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. Indian Affairs: Further Actions on GAO Recommendations Needed to Address Systemic Management Challenges with Indian Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bottorff EA. The community college baccalaureate: A study of capital costs in Florida. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, 2011.

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]

Grynbaum MM, Herrman J. Once an Outlier, Breitbart Rises to Potent Voice. New York Times 2016:A1.

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