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]

Spottiswoode CN. Evolution. How cooperation defeats cheats. Science 2013;342:1452–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pascual A, Préat T. Localization of long-term memory within the Drosophila mushroom body. Science 2001;294:1115–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Huang S, Lee C-TA, Yin Q-Z. Missing lead and high ³He/⁴He in ancient sulfides associated with continental crust formation. Sci Rep 2014;4:5314.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Marks B, Stowell MH, Vallis Y, Mills IG, Gibson A, Hopkins CR, et al. GTPase activity of dynamin and resulting conformation change are essential for endocytosis. Nature 2001;410:231–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Allen M. Foundations of Forensic Document Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Devos AS, Blickman JG, editors. Radiological Imaging of the Digestive Tract in Infants and Children. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

El-Meliegy E, van Noort R. Theoretical Estimation of Glass Properties. In: Noort R van, editor. Glasses and Glass Ceramics for Medical Applications, New York, NY: Springer; 2012, p. 79–93.

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. How Fish Fossils Can Help Us Build Better Submarines. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-fish-fossils-can-help-us-build-better-submarines/ (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. NASA ADP Systems: Information on the Automated Mission and Payload Tracking System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Meyer MA. Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of the Mediterranean Mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2014.

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]

Montague J. Door Opens to Hinterlands of Soccer. New York Times 2017:B10.

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