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. US energy agency pulls plug on role in genome project. Nature 2000;404:4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gourmelen N, Amelung F. Postseismic mantle relaxation in the Central Nevada Seismic Belt. Science 2005;310:1473–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Snyder A, Pamer E, Wolchok J. IMMUNOTHERAPY. Could microbial therapy boost cancer immunotherapy? Science 2015;350:1031–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Katz HE, Lovinger AJ, Johnson J, Kloc C, Siegrist T, Li W, et al. A soluble and air-stable organic semiconductor with high electron mobility. Nature 2000;404:478–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fleckenstein P, Tranum-Jensen J, Myschetzky PS. Anatomy in Diagnostic Imaging. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Gleizes M-P, Omicini A, Zambonelli F, editors. Engineering Societies in the Agents World V: 5th International Workshop, ESAW 2004, Toulouse, France, October 20-22, 2004. Revised Selected and Invited Papers. vol. 3451. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tan J. LIMITED DECENTRALIZATION IN THE SINGAPORE EDUCATION SYSTEM. In: Bjork C, editor. Educational Decentralization: Asian Experiences and Conceptual Contributions, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006, p. 59–70.

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 Much Room Do We Need To Supply The Entire World With Solar Electricity? IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-much-room-do-we-need-supply-entire-world-solar-electricity/ (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. Educating People at Risk for AIDS. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wall JD. The Effects of Acute L-Dopa on Brux-like and Masticatory Motor Patterns: EMG Phase Analysis in Rats. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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]

Vecsey G. A Summer With Uncle Casey In the Town He Owned. New York Times 2011:SP2.

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

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