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]

Weertman JR. Materials science. Retaining the nano in nanocrystalline alloys. Science 2012;337:921–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vecchi GA, Soden BJ. Effect of remote sea surface temperature change on tropical cyclone potential intensity. Nature 2007;450:1066–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

McSween HY Jr, Taylor GJ, Wyatt MB. Elemental composition of the Martian crust. Science 2009;324:736–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gilbert DA, Zimanyi GT, Dumas RK, Winklhofer M, Gomez A, Eibagi N, et al. Quantitative decoding of interactions in tunable nanomagnet arrays using first order reversal curves. Sci Rep 2014;4:4204.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Calloway J. Work Like You’re Showing Off! Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Fellows M, Tan X, Zhu B, editors. Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: Third Joint International Conference, FAW-AAIM 2013, Dalian, China, June 26-28, 2013. Proceedings. vol. 7924. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jo H-S, Yang J-D, Choi W. Concept Based Orchestration of Web Services Using XOT. In: Khachidze V, Wang T, Siddiqui S, Liu V, Cappuccio S, Lim A, editors. Contemporary Research on E-business Technology and Strategy: International Conference, iCETS 2012, Tianjin, China, August 29-31, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 41–53.

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]

Carpineti A. Comets’ Nuclei Break Up And Make Up Over Their Life Time. IFLScience 2016.

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. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Progress and Challenges in Planning and Implementing the Transformation of the National Airspace System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cetin B. Leaching of metals from high carbon fly ash mixed soils. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

Gustines GG. Out of the Closet and Up, Up and Away. New York Times 2010:ST1.

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